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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[W.

cib + gwst

pain, sickness.]

A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain.

“He galls his kibe.”

Shak.

Noun.

[This word has the elements of chap, gap, gape.]

A chap or crack in the flesh occasioned by cold; an ulcerated chilblain; as in the heels.