Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GI'ANT-SHIP, n.

The state, quality or character of a giant. His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen. Milton.

GIAOUR, n. [djowr; Arab.]

In Turkey an unbeliever or infidel.

GIB, n.

A cat. [Not in use.] Skelton.

GIB, v.i.

To act like a cat. [Not in use.] Beaum.

GIBBE, n.

An old worn-out animal. [Not used.] Shak.

GIB'BER, v.i. [See Gabble. It is probably allied to gabble, and to jabber.]

To speak rapidly and inarticulately. [Not used] Shak.

GIB'BER-ISH, a.

Unmeaning, as words. Swift.

GIB'BER-ISH, n. [from gibber.]

Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words.

GIB'BET, n. [Fr. gibet; Arm. gibel.]

1. A gallows; a post or machine in form of a gallows, on which notorious malefactors are hanged in chains, and on which their bodies are suffered to remain, as spectacles in terrorem. Swift.
2. Any traverse beam. Johnson.

GIB'BET, v.t.

1. To hang and expose on a gibbet or gallows.
2. To hang or expose on any thing going traverse, as the beam of a gibbet. Shak.

GIB'BET-ED, pp.

Hanged and exposed on a gibbet.

GIB'BET-ING, ppr.

Hanging and exposing on a gibbet.

GIB'BIER, n. [Fr.]

Wild fowl; game. [Not used.] Addison.

GIB-BOS'I-TY, n. [Fr. gibbosité, from L. gibbosus. See Gibbous.]

Protuberance; a round or swelling prominence; convexity. Ray.

GIB'BOUS, a. [L. gibbus; Fr. gibbeux; It. gibboso; Sp. giboso; Gr. κυφος, from κυπτω, to bend. Class Gb, No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.]

1. Swelling; protuberant; convex. The moon is gibbous between the quarters and the full moon, the enlightened part being then convex. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. Wiseman.
2. Hunched; hump-backed; crook-backed. Brown.

GIB'BOUS-LY, adv.

ln a gibbous or protuberant form. Eaton.

GIB'BOUS-NESS, n.

Protuberance; a round prominence; convexity. [This word is preferable to gibbosity.]

GIBBS'ITE, n.

A mineral found at Richmond, in Massachusetts, and named in honor of George Gibbs, Esq. It occurs in irregular stalactical masses, which present an aggregation of elongated, tuberous branches, parallel and united. Its structure is fibrous, the fibers radiating from an axis. Its colors are a dirty white, greenish white, and grayish. Cleaveland.

GIB'CAT, n.

A he-cat, or an old worn-out cat. Shak.

GIBE, n.

An expression of censure mingled with contempt; a scoff; a railing; an expression of sarcastic scorn. Mark the fleers, the gibes, and the notable scorns, / That dwell in every region of his face. Shak.

GIBE, v.i. [Sax. gabban; Fr. gaber; It. gabbare. See Gabble. The sense is probably to throw or cast at, or make mouths. But see Class Gb, No. 67, 79.]

To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail at; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

GIBE, v.t.

To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to treat with sarcastic reflections; taunt. Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them. Swift.

GIB'EL-INE, n.

The Gibelines were a faction in Italy, that opposed another faction called Guelfs, in the 13th century. J. Adams.

GIB'ER, n.

One who utters reproachful, censorious and contemptuous expressions, or who casts cutting, sarcastic reflections; one who derides; a scoffer. B. Jonson.

GIB'ING, ppr.

Uttering reproachful, contemptuous and censorious words; scoffing.