Gib·bous a.
1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.
The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. --Wiseman.
2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.]
-- Gib*bous*ly, adv. -- Gib*bous*ness, n.
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gibbousness
n : something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, jut,
prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion,
excrescence]