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Slipper Slip"per, n. 1. One who, or that which, slips. 2. A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe. 3. A kind of apron or pinafore for children. 4. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel. 5. (Mach.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib. Slipper animalcule (Zo["o]l.), a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium. Slipper flower.(Bot.) Slipperwort. Slipper limpet, or Slipper shell (Zo["o]l.), a boat shell.
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Gib Gib, n. [Abbreviated fr. Gilbert, the name of the cat in the old story of ``Reynard the Fox'. in the ``Romaunt of the Rose', etc.] A male cat; a tomcat. [Obs.]
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Gib Gib, v. i. To act like a cat. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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Gib Gib, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw. Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), the fixed wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting rod.
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Gib Gib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gibbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbing.] To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs. Gibbed lathe, an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.
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Gib Gib, v. i. To balk. See Jib, v. i. --Youatt.

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- Adam Gib (15 April 1714 – 14 June 1788) was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church. He reportedly...
- "Komm, gib mir deine Hand" and "Sie liebt dich" (English: "Come, Give Me Your Hand" and "She Loves You") are German-language versions of "I Want to Hold...
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- Gib Rides Home is a 1998 novel for young readers by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. It is set in the early 1900s and concerns the plight of young orphan boys who...
- x86 microprocessors. It prevents the operating systems from using all of 4 GiB (4 × 10243 bytes) of main memory. The exact barrier varies by motherboard...
- Maximum: 32 GiB, with 2, 4 or 8 GiB in base Video: Integrated: Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Up to 1.7 GiB system) Additional: NVIDIA GeForce GT 635 (1 GiB DDR3)...