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&fist; 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.

Gib" boom` (?). See Jib boom.

Gib*bose" (?), 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.

Gib*bost"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F.
gibbosité.] The state of being gibbous or gibbose;
gibbousness.

Gib"bous (?), a. [Cf. F.
gibbeux. See Gibbose.]

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

The bones will rise, and make a gibbous
member.

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

-- Gib"bous*ly, adv. --
Gib"bous*ness, n.


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