gibbosityn.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xlviii^v A backe the which may haue many infyrmytes, as debylytie and wekenes, curuyte, and gybbosyte.

a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 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.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 135 What should take away the sight of these Ships from each other but the gibbosity of the interjacent Water?

1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) I. 159 It is by suggestion, that the gibbosity of the tree and the moss, that fringes its trunk, appear before us.

1853 J. E. Erichsen Sci. & Art Surg. xliv. 624 When they have fallen together and very considerable gibbosity has resulted, anchylosis more readily takes place.

1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. iv. 63 When Mars is in quadrature his gibbosity is not very remarkable.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 224 Apostym wiþoutforþ aboute þe spaudis and þe gibbositees.

1560 tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde (new ed.) i. sig. I.i The gybosyte or swellyng seate of the lyuer.

1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1707) viii. 60 The brighter parts [of the Moon] are full of rugged Gibbosities and Mountains.

a1794 W. Jones Sel. Indian Plants in Wks. (1799) II. 105 Some with an acute point, dark green above, paler beneath with a gibbosity at the insertion of the petiols.

a1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. (1814) VIII. 77 The edges of the upper and lower gibbosities have each twenty-three indentations, or strong teeth, on each side.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 145 In some..this anal horn is replaced by a gibbosity.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 138 Acute or acuminate, the gibbosity close to the stem.

1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) I. ii. xxv. 641 Such gibbosities are caused by the abrupt termination of viscous streams.