Just my two cents.
   Doesn't Shakespeare mention a "gibbous Moon" meaning the inflated appearance of the full moon as it rises---and appears larger than usual through the atmospheric lens?
   Art
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> From: "Barney, Winston" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2003/09/18 Thu PM 01:44:20 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Define the term "gibbous"
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> "Gibbous" comes from the Latin, "gibber / gibbus" meaning humped,
> humpbacked, protuberant, or bent according to Roland Brown's book
> "Composition of Scientific Words".
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> Winston Barney
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> Subject: Define the term "gibbous"
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> > I keep encountering the erm "gibbous" to refer to the
> > shell shape.  Will someone explain this term to me,
> > please?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > linda
>

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