gibbous

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Still more are promised, hopefully Keith, Gibbous and Reverend.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2011

Gibbous nose aloft and in fine priggish voice, Master Freddie imparts phonetic reality to an age when Britishers wrote s's that looked like f's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gibbous, gib′us, adj. hump-backed: swelling, convex, as the moon when nearly full—also Gibb′ose.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

At this time Daniel Gibbous was about forty years old, and his wife about twenty-eight, she having been born on the ninth of the seventh month, 1787.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William

Gibbous: hump-backed; protuberant: said of a macula when it resembles a moon more than half full.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.