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e threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained. Gibbon.

loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth. "He was born in the purple." Gibbon.

A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

vote was counted in the day of battle, but I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. Gibbon.

string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments. "A string of islands." Gibbon.

ii. 9. When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse. Gibbon.

good apples. The early fame of Gratian was equal to that of the most celebrated princes. Gibbon.

The agile gibbon; -- called also ungka-pati, and ungka-etam. See Gibbon.

g, as of an amphitheater. Sixty-four vomitories . . . poured forth the immense multitude. Gibbon.

While. [Archaic] Whilst the emperor lay at Antioch. Gibbon. The whilst, in the meantime; while. [Archaic.] Shak.

The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See Gibbon. [Written also wow-wow.]

The crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, w…