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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.
2. (Zo["o]l.) An arctic fish ({Gadus luscus}), allied to the
cod; -- called also {pout} and {whiting pout}.
3. A bibcock.
\Bib\, Bibbe \Bibbe\, v. t. [L. bibere. See {Beverage}, and
cf. {Imbibe}.]
To drink; to tipple. [Obs.]
This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. --Chaucer.
\Bib\, v. i.
To drink; to sip; to tipple.
He was constantly bibbing. --Locke.
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