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▪ I. kibe, n.|kaɪb|
Also 5–7 kybe.
[Of uncertain origin; not from OE.; cf. Welsh cibi (also cibwst) of the same meaning, which, if native, may be the source of the English word.]
1. A chapped or ulcerated chilblain, esp. one on the heel.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 227 Also wiþ his penne he made þris croys on a kybe [L. anthracem] þat he hadde, and hit vansched awey. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 5 Of wryncles, & chynes of handes, and kybis on þe ffete. 1544T. Phaer Bk. Childr. (1553) R vij b, Sedes of nettels..sodden in oile..is verye good to heale the kybes of heeles. 1770Foote Lame Lover i. Wks. 1799 II. 61, I..have no fear of corns, kibes, or that another man should kick my shins. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 82 When the inflammation becomes ulcerated or forms a kibe.
b. fig. in phrases, as: to gall or tread on (one's) kibes, to press upon closely so as to irritate or annoy, to hurt one's feelings; to tread or follow on the kibes of, to come closely at the heels of; etc.
1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 153 The toe of the Pesant comes so neere the heeles of our Courtier, hee galls his Kibe. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 29 May, The hod-carrier, the low mechanic..the citizen, and courtier, ‘all tread upon the kibes of one another’. 1820Byron Blues i. 157 We shall have the whole crew on our kibes. 1883Contemp. Rev. June 907 How closely this spectre [suicide] follows on the kibes of pleasure and extravagance.
2. transf.
a. A sore on a horse's foot (see crepance and cf. kiby quot. 1886). ? Obs.
1639T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 38 Swellings in the hinder legs, foundrings, selenders, scratches, kybes [etc.]. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Scratches, a distemper incident to Horses.. being distinguished indeed by several names, viz. Crepances, Rats tails, Mules, Kibes, Pains, etc.
b. A breaking out at the top of the hoof in sheep. (So Welsh cibi.)
1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 282 The foot-rot and kibe. Ibid. 283, I consider the kibe to be..contagious, and all sheep attacked with the disorder should..be removed from the flock.
†c. A hump or swelling. Obs. rare.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 75 There are two kindes of Cammels, one which is onely in Arabie, which hath two kibes in his back: the other in many other countries, al plain in his back.
3. Comb., as kibe-heel; kibe-heeled adj.
1630Davenant Cruel Bro. ii. Dram. Wks. 1872 I. 136 How they..trip On their wanton toes, like kibe-heel'd fairies. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1104 Their ashes..laid on with oyl of Roses cures Kibe-heels. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece i. i. 17 Nothing so effectually cures Kibe Heels.
▪ II. kibe, v. rare.|kaɪb|
[f. prec.]
trans. To affect with kibes or chilblains; incorrectly, to kick or gall (with allusion to quot. 1602 in prec. 1 b).
1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) IV. 206, I had walked..to London-House, with..the Boots that had kibedme at Windsor on my Legs. 1887A. Birrell Obiter Dicta Ser. ii. 267 The toe of the peasant is indeed kibing the heel of the courtier. |