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Prating; idle talk. Bibbs, n. pl. ( Naut.) Pieces of timber bolted to the hounds of a mast, to support the trestle-trees. Biberach, ( be'bai - rak ,) a town of Würtemberg, circ. of the Danube, in a fertile valley, on the Ries, 22 m. S.S.W. of Ulm. Near the town are the mineral waters of Jordans bad. B. is the birthplace of Wiel and; and in 1796, the French, under Moreau, defeated the Austrians in its vicinity.