. Milton.
||Giaour (?), n. [Turk. giaur an infidel, Per. gawr, another form of
||ghebr fire worshiper. Cf. Kaffir, Gheber .] An infidel; -- a term
||applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion,
||especially Christrians. Byron.
Gib (?), 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.]
Gib, v. i. To act like a cat. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Gib (?), 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.
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.
Gib, 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.
Gibbed lathe, an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down
to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.
Gib (?), v. i. To balk. See Jib, v. i. Youatt.
Gib*bar"tas (?), n. [Cf. Ar. jebbr giant; or L. gibber humpbacked: cf.
F. gibbar.] (Zoˆl.) One of several finback whales of the North
Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale. [Written also jubartas,
gubertas, dubertus.]
Gib"ber (?), n. [From Gib to balk.] A balky horse. Youatt.
Gib"ber (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gibbered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Gibbering.] [Akin to jabber, and gabble.] To speak rapidly and
inarticulately. Shak.
Gib"ber*ish (?), n. [From Gibber, v. i.] Rapid and inarticulate talk;
unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.
He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he
had learnt to know.
Drayton.
Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.
Hawthorne.
Gib"ber*ish, a. Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.
Gib"bet (?), 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.]
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.
2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the
jib.