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n. Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. corribilis, fr. L. corrigere to correct: cf. F. corrigible. See Correrct. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Submissive to correction; docile. “Bending down his corrigible neck.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Deserving chastisement; punishable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having power to correct; corrective. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. éligibilité. ] The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. éligible, fr. L. eligere. See Elect. ] 1. That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. [ 1913 Webster ]

The more eligible of the two evils. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an eligible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Erect. ] Capable of being erected. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. exigible. See Exigent. ] That may be exacted; repairable. [ R. ] A. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sycophant. [ Obs. & Humorous. ] “Flatterers and flibbergibs.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An imp. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. frangibilité. ] The state or quality of being frangible. Fox. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. frangible. ] Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ LL. (res) fungibiles, probably fr. L. fungi to discharge. “A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem recipere in the Digeste.” Bouvier. “Called fungibiles, quia una alterius vice fungitur.” John Taylor (1755). Cf. Function. ] 1. (Civ. Law) Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually. Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbreviated fr. Gilbert, the name of the cat in the old story of “Reynard the Fox”, in the “Romaunt of the Rose”, etc. ] A male cat; a tomcat. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act like a cat. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gibbed p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbing. ] To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gibbed lathe, an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To balk. See Jib, v. i. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Gibaros /plu>. [ Amer. Sp. jíbaro wild. ] (Ethnol.) The offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian; a Spanish-Indian mestizo. [ Sp. Amer. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. Ar. jebbār giant; or L. gibber humpbacked: cf. F. gibbar. ] (Zool.) One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale. [ Written also jubartas, gubertas, dubertus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gib to balk. ] A balky horse. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. gibbered p. pr. & vb. n. gibbering. ] [ Akin to jabber, and gabble. ] To speak rapidly and inarticulately. Shak.
Syn. -- jabber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.), A plant growth hormone of the gibberellin series (C19H22O6), also called gibberellin A₃. It was first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi. It is used to promote the growth of seedlings. See also gibberellin. MI11 [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.), Any of a number plant growth hormones, the first of which was isolated in 1938 from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi; more than 60 related gibberelins are known. The most important is gibberellin A₃, also called gibberellic acid. They are used in agriculture for promoting plant growth. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Unmeaning; as, gibberish language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gibber, v. i. ] 1. Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go;
All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Incomprehensible, obscure, or pretentious technical talk or writing; excessively obscure jargon. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. gibet, F. gibet, in OF. also club, fr. LL. gibetum;; cf. OF. gibe sort of sickle or hook, It. giubbetto gibbet, and giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. It. gibba (cf. Jupon); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is, perhaps, derived fr. L. gibbus hunched, humped, E. gibbous; or cf. E. jib a sail. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain as a warning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gibbeted p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbeting. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To hang and expose on a gibbet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To expose to infamy; to blacken. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll gibbet up his name. Oldham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gibier. ] Wild fowl; game. [ Obs. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. gibbon. ] (Zool.) 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.

☞ The white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar), the crowned (H. pilatus), the wou-wou or singing gibbon (H. agilis), the siamang, and the hoolock. are the most common species. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Jib boom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gibbosus, fr. gibbus, gibba, hunch, hump. Cf. Gibbous. ] Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. gibbosité. ] The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hunched; hump-backed. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne.

-- Gib"bous*ly, adv. -- Gib"bous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after George Gibbs. ] (Min.) A hydrate of alumina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A male cat, esp. an old one. See 1st Gib. n. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With solemn gibe did Eustace banter me. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gibed p. pr. & vb. n. Gibing. ] [ Cf. Prov. F. giber, equiv. to F. jouer to play, Icel. geipa to talk nonsense, E. jabber. ] To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Draw the beasts as I describe them,
From their features, while I gibe them. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. gibel, giebel. ] (Zool.) A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. One who utters gibes. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The male of the salmon. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a gibing manner; scornfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE. gibelet, OF. gibelet game: cf. F. gibelotte stewed rabbit. Cf. Gibbier. ] The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]