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afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw. Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), the fixed wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting rod.

See Jib boom.

A male cat, esp. an old one. See lst Gib. n. [Obs.] Shak.

The offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian; a Spanish-Indian mestizo. [Sp. Amer.]

One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale. [Written also jubartas, gubertas, dubertus.]

A balky horse. Youatt.

Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

To hang and expose on a gibbet.

Wild fowl; game. [Obs.] Addison.

Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.

Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. Brande & C.

The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.

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.

A hydrate of alumina.

ons; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp.

One who utters gibes. B. Jonson.

The male of the salmon. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

In a gibing manner; scornfully.

Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.