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Bib (), n. [From Bib, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.]
    1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.

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    2. (Zool.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.

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    3. A bibcock.

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 Bib, Bibbe  (), v. t. [L. bibere. See Beverage, and cf. Imbibe.] To drink; to tipple. [Obs.]

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    This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. Chaucer.

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Bib, v. i. To drink; to sip; to tipple.

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    He was constantly bibbing. Locke.

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