[Fictionary] GIBUS ballot

[fictioneric at cluemail.com]

Here you are folks.  As usual, one two-point and one one-point vote. 
Get your votes in by next MONDAY morning, 15 December.

One submitter neglected to provide a usage example, even upon being 
reminded, so I took the liberty of adding a sample to that definition.

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gibus, n. -- a global positioning device invented in the 17th
     century by some forgotten sailor. "In the dark corners of
     the Naval War College Museum in Newport, RI, (currently
     entered only with a special pass) are dusty examples of
     various gibi: some are improvements on sextants and
     astrolabes, and some are innovative contraptions of which
     most have never seen the like; all, however, aided their
     ships on their perilous journeys of yesteryear."


gibus, n. -- Public property used in performance art.  Coined by
     Scott Nethersole in _Immediations: the journal of the
     Courtauld Institute of Art_, in reference to a 1984
     installation by guerrilla artist Wendie Chisholm in which
     she appropriated an out-of-service London Routemaster bus
     and hanged effigies of Margaret Thatcher and other
     Conservative Members of Parliament from its upper windows in
     support of the National Union of Mineworkers' strike.


gibus, n. (fr. American army slang, "G. I. Bus") -- a lightly
     armored truck produced by Ford Motor Company between 1942
     and 1957.  "Willy patted the metal seat, and Edna hopped
     into the gibus.  The nurse giggled.  'I've never been in one
     of these before,' she said."


gibus, n. -- The amount of free movement or play in a
     directional antenna mount.  "I can't maintain the
     connection; the antenna has too much gibus."


gibus: n. -- A glass containing an alcoholic beverage.  "Pass me
     down a sweech hopfully gibus, and let my melancholy flow."
     -- James Joyce, _Ulysses_


gibus, n. -- A reputation fixed unalterably by a single event.
     "The Florentines . . . represent the _Gibus_ as a
     screeching, fluttering parrot . . . [perched] on the right
     or left shoulder to signify renown or infamy." -- Ruskin,
     _Sketches from Italy_, 1878


gibus, n. -- A small intensely red growth on a human, often on
     the face.  "Is that his nose?  I thought it was a gibus
     <L.O.L.>."


gibus, n. -- A collapsible opera-hat, in which the crown can be
     compressed down to the brim.  "Mr Bredon the ever-polite,
     expanded and assumed his gibus during the descent,
     apparently for the express purpose of taking it off to her
     when he emerged." -- Dorothy Sayers, _Murder Must Advertise_


gibus, adj. -- incomplete, unfinished. "Though the great
     sanctuary remains gibus in some detail, all work on the
     walls of the cathedral has finished and the pilgrimages
     begun."


gibus, n. -- The graph of the function y=cos(sqrt(x)). In full,
     "gibus of Frobenius". [Latin _gibus_, the part of a spring
     that comes off the rod it is wound on.]  "So we went into
     Larry's room, where he was designing the filter, and the
     board was covered with electronic diagrams, a gibus, and a
     cochleoid."


gibus, n. -- The pickpocket's assistant who, by loudly
     exclaiming that there is a wallet-snatcher about, induces
     passers-by to check their pockets and purses, thereby
     revealing the locations of valuables to the observant
     pickpocket.  "I worked up a new gibus in every town, a local
     guy, who knew the rich spots and when to drop low." --
     Charles Danniver, _Life of a Con Man_, 1933


gibus, n. -- The active cell-growth region of a tumor or other
     malignancy.  "Necropsy revealed a diffuse marginate gibus,
     with vascular wall infiltration compatible with the
     recurrent haemorrhagic episodes."


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