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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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   Pout (po͞ot), n. [F. poulet. See Poult.] The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.  Carew.
   
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   Pout (po͞ot), v. i. To shoot pouts. [Scot.]
   
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   Pout (pout), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouting.] [OE. pouten, of uncertain origin; cf. Prov. pot lip, Prov. F. potte, faire la potte to pout, W. pwdu to pout, be sullen, poten, potten, a paunch, belly.]
   1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.
   
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   Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. Shak.
   
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   2. To protrude. “Pouting lips.”  Dryden.
   
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   Pout, n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. “Jack's in the pouts.”  J. & H. Smith.
   
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   Pout, n. [Cf. Eelpout.] (Zool.) The European whiting pout or bib.
   
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   Eel pout. (Zool.) See Eelpout. -- Horn pout, or Horned pout. (Zool.) See Bullhead (b).
   
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