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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A bibcock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bibax, bibacis, fr. bibere. See Bib. ] Addicted to drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + basic. ] (Chem.) Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ L. bibere. See Beverage, and cf. Imbibe. ] To drink; to tipple. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A reduplication of babble. ] Idle talk; babble. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]