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Gyand, Gyant, Gyan(e, n. Also: jyand, geyant, gyen. [ME. gyant (1480), var. of geant. Cf. Geand and Giand.] A giant.(a) c1420 Wynt. vi. 1392.
In Rome thai fand A body off a ded gyand
a1500 Henr. III. 97/44.
Off ony knycht gife he micht heir Wald fecht with that gyand
c1475 Wall. viii. 887.
On the mont Mychell, quhar he [sc. Arthur] the gyand slew
c1500 Crying of Play 8.
A gyaind strang … , That with the strenth of my hand Beres may bynd
c1500-c1512 Dunb. lv. 21.
Sum thocht tham selffis stark lyk gyandis
1513 Doug. x. x. 53.
Lyke as Egeon, the kyng of gyandis, Quhilk had … ane huindreth armys and handys
1535 Stewart 53414.
Tha fand … Ane man that tyme of richt greit quantitie, Ontill ane gyand most liklie till be
1567 G. Ball. 94.
Nor [is] jyand [v.r. gyand] saif be strenth of his bodie
(b) c1420 Wynt. i. 314 (W).
Sethis sonis … gat upon thaim … Thir gyantis
Ib. 341.
He come with gyantis full twenty
1490 Irland Mir. fol. 335 b.
Virgil and vthire sais that Poliphemus the gyant eit quyc men
1513 Doug. Comm. ix/2.
The battale betwix the god Dis and the gyantis
1531 Bell. Boece (M) II. 140.
Mair like gyanttis than commoun stature of men
Ib. 172.
Lyke gyantis with huge bodijs
1573 Sat. P. xxxix. 360.
Caleb … Ourthrew thair castellis and thair gyaintis dang
1596 Dalr. I. 3/4.
Albine, first mother of the geyantis
Ib. 210/28.
Quhais ofspring proceidet of the stock of the ald gyantis
(c) a1500 Henr. III. 96/16.
Thair dwelt alyt besyde the king A fowll gyane of ane
Ib. 31.
The gyane wes so strang
c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxiii. 31.
The Jow was of a grit engyne, And generit was of gyans
Ib. xxxviii. 20.
He … as gyane raxit him on hicht
c1500 Interl. Droich 29.
Quha is cum heir bot I, … That generit am of gyanis kind
c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1653.
He wes ane gyane stout and straing
c1590 J. Stewart 14/80.
Mychtie Jowe his bittir blasts did rais, And all the proud contemmyng gyans slew
attrib. 15.. Clar. ii. 50.
The michtie campioun … With gyen corpis, … strong and wicht

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