- a first-year man.—_Dublin University._
- or JIBBER, a horse that starts or shrinks. Shakspeare uses it in the sense of a worn-out horse.
- the face, or a person’s expression; “the cut of his JIB,” _i.e._, his peculiar appearance. That sail of a ship, which in position and shape, corresponds to the nose on a person’s face.—_Sea._ A vessel is often known by the cut of the JIB sail; hence the popular phrase, “to know a man by the cut of his JIB.”
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