LekhoriLekhoriCurved or bulged outward.
In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.
The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.
Humpbacked.
A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
From Middle English gibbous, from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), κ...
Select a language to see translations