giantly (jiantli)

[ The Sasquesahanockes are a Giantly people, strange in proportion, behauiour, and attire, their voice sounding from them as out of a Caue. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 767. This chieftain, as I have before noted, was a very giant ly man, and was clad in a coarse blue coat. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 371. giant-powder (ji'ant-pou"dėr), n . An explosive formed of nitroglycerin mixed with infusorial earth. It is a form of dynamite. giant-queller (ji'ant-kwel"èr), n. A subduer of giants; a giant-killer. giantry (ji'an-tri), n. [ giant + -ry . ] The race of giants; giants collectively. (Rare.] The flimsy giantry of O ian has introduced mountainous horrors. Walpole, Letters (1784), IV. 380.