AC´AMAS, one of the Cyclops.—_Greek Fable._ ADAMASTOR, the giant Spirit of the Cape. His lips were black, teeth blue, eyes shot with livid fire, and voice louder than thunder.—Camoëns, _Lusiad_, v. ÆGÆON, the hundred-handed giant. One of the Titans.—_Greek Fable._ AG´ROIS, one of the giants called Titans. He was killed by the Parcæ.—_Greek Fable._ ALCYONEUS [_Al´.sĭ.ŏ.nuce_] or AL´CION, brother of Porphyrĭon. He stole some of the Sun’s oxen, and Jupiter sent Herculês against him, but he was unable to prevail, for immediately the giant touched the earth he received fresh vigor. Pallas, seizing him, carried him beyond the moon, and he died. His seven daughters were turned into halcyons, or kingfishers.—Apollonios of Rhodes, _Argonautic Expedition_, i. 6. AL´GEBAR´. The giant Orīon is so called by the Arabs. ALIFANFARON or ALIPHARNON, emperor of Trapoban.—_Don Quixote._ ALOE´OS, (4 _syl._), son of Titan and Terra.—_Greek Fable_. ALOI´DES (4 _syl._), sons of Alēĕus (4 _syl._), named Otos and Ephialtês (_q.v._). AM´ERANT, a cruel giant slain by Guy of Warwick.—Percy, _Reliques_. ANGOULAFFRE, the Saracen giant. He was 12 cubits high, his face measured 3 feet in breadth, his nose was 9 inches long, his arms and legs 6 feet. He had the strength of thirty men, and his mace was the solid trunk of an oak tree, 300 years old. The tower of Pisa lost its perpendicularity by the weight of this giant leaning against it to rest himself. He was slain in single combat by Roland, at Fronsac.—L’Epine, _Croquemitaine_. ANTÆOS, 60 cubits (85 feet) in height.—Plutarch. ARGES (2 _syl._), one of the Cyclops.—_Greek Fable._ ASCHAPART, a giant 30 feet high, and with 12 inches between his eyes. Slain by Sir Bevis of Southampton.—_British Fable._ ATLAS, the giant of the Atlas Mountains, who carries the world on his back. A book of maps is called an “atlas” from this giant.—_Greek Fable_. BALAN, “bravest and strongest of the giant race.”—_Amădis of Gaul_. BELLE, famous for his three leaps, which gave names to the places called Wanlip, Burstall, and Bellegrave.—_British Fable_. BELLE´RUS, the giant from whom Cornwall derived its name “Bellerium.”—_British Fable_. Milton: Lycidas. BLUNDERBORE (3 _syl._), the giant who was drowned because Jack scuttled his boat.—_Jack the Giant-killer_. BRIARE´OS (4 _syl._), a giant with a hundred hands. One of the Titans.—_Greek Fable_. BROBDINGNAG, a country of giants, to whom an ordinary-sized man was “not half so big as a round little worm pricked from the lazy finger of a maid.”—Swift, _Gulliver’s Travels_. BRONTES (2 _syl._), one of the Cyclops.—_Greek Fable_. BURLONG, a giant mentioned in the romance of _Sir Tryamour_. CACUS, of Mount Aventine, who dragged the oxen of Hereculês into his cave tail foremost.—_Greek Fable_. CALIG´ORANT, the Egyptian giant, who entrapped travellers with an invisible net.—Ariosto.