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gibbosity|gɪˈbɒsɪtɪ|
[ad. F. gibbosité, f. L. gibbōsus: see prec.]
1. The state, quality, or condition of being gibbose or gibbous.
1547Boorde Brev. Health cviii. 41 A backe the which may have many infirmities, as debylytie, and wekenes, curvytie, and gybbositie. a1646J. Gregory Maps & Charts in Posthuma (1650) 305 This way of Description rendreth the face of the Earth upon a Plain in its own proper Figure Spherically, as upon the Globe it self, the gibbositie onely allowed for. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1701) 194 What should take away the sight of these ships from each other, but the gibbosity of the interjacent water? 1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 159 It is by suggestion, that the gibbosity of the tree and the moss, that fringes its trunk, appear before us. 1853Erichsen Surg. 624 When they have fallen together and very considerable gibbosity has resulted, anchylosis more readily takes place. 1872Proctor Ess. Astron. iv. 63 When Mars is in quadrature his gibbosity is not very remarkable.
2. A swelling; a protuberance.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 224 Apostym wiþoutforþ aboute þe spaudis and þe gibbositees. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde i. (1634) 72 The gybosite or swelling seate of the liuer. 1638Wilkins New World viii. (1707) 60 The brighter parts [of the Moon] are full of rugged Gibbosities and Mountains. a1794Sir W. Jones Select Ind. Plants Wks. 1799 II. 105 Some with an acute point, dark green above, paler beneath with a gibbosity at the insertion of the petiols. a1813Wilson Amer. Ornith. (1814) VIII. 77 The edges of the upper and lower gibbosities have each twenty-three indentations, or strong teeth, on each side. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 145 In some..this anal horn is replaced by a gibbosity. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 138 Acute or acuminate, the gibbosity close to the stem. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. I. ii. xxv. 641 Such gibbosities are caused by the abrupt termination of viscous streams. |