Gibbous

Once more than half of the disc of the Moon is illuminated, it has a shape we call gibbous.

The gibbous moon appears to grow fatter each night until we see the full sunlit face of the Moon. We call this phase the full moon.

From the bed, I can clearly see the waning gibbous moon through the window.

In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]

The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.

On December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface.

A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;