GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Found 3 definitions

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   Bib , n. [From Bib, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.]
   A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
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   (Zool.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
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   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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