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And the same thing applies for gibbous moons where you can instead think of the dark part as the crescent.
The sun lights up the Moon, so the bright part of the Moon, whether crescent or gibbous, should always point towards the Sun.
As the days pass, the moon continues to grow, soon entering its next phase, the waxing gibbous.
Gibbous means humped or swollen, and again, we call it waxing because it grows thicker every night until it reaches the next phase, the full moon.
yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east.
into the shrunken and gibbous sky on flapping membraneous wings. The odour arising from