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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GIBBOS'ITY, n. [L. gibbosus. See Gibbous.]
Protuberance; a round or swelling prominence; convexity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 14th century protuberance, swelling

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Convexity, protuberance, prominence, swelling, gibbousness.