[from BIB sb.1: see quot. 1836.] A fish; the whiting-pout (Gadus luscus).

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1674.  Ray, Fishes, 101. The Bib or Blinds.

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1766.  Pennant, Zool. (1769), III. 149. The Bib (Gadus luscus) … is esteemed a good eating fish, not unlike the whiting in taste.

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1836.  Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, II. 159. From a singular power of inflating a membrane which covers the eyes and other parts about the head, which, when thus distended, have the appearance of bladders, it is called Pout, Bib, Blens, and Blinds.

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1880.  Günther, Fishes, 541.

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