1998. _Olifaunt_, i. e. Elephant; a proper name, as Tyrwhitt observes, for a giant. Maundeville has the form _olyfauntes_ for _elephants_. By some confusion the Moeso-Goth. _ulbandus_ and A. S. _olfend_ are made to signify a _camel_. Spenser has put Chaucer's _Olifaunt_ into his Faerie Queene, bk. iii. c. 7. st. 48, and makes him the brother of the giantess Argantè, and son of Typhoeus and Earth. The following description of a giant is from Libius Disconius (Percy Folio MS. vol. ii. p. 465):-- 'He beareth haires on his brow Like the bristles of a sow, His head is great and stout; Eche arme is the lenght of an ell, His fists beene great and fell, Dints for to driue about.' Sir Libius says:-- 'If God will me grace send, Or this day come to an end I hope him for to spill,' &c. Another giant, 20 feet long, and 2 ells broad, with two boar's tusks, and also with brows like bristles of a swine, appears in Octouian Imperator, ed. Weber, iii. 196. See also the alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. Brock, p. 33. 2000. _child_; see note to l. 2020. _Termagaunt_; one of the idols whom the Saracens (in the medieval romances) are supposed to worship. See The King of Tars, ed. Ritson (Met. Rom., ii. 174-182), where the Sultan's gods are said to be Jubiter, Jovin (both forms of Jupiter), Astrot (Astarte), Mahoun (Mahomet), Appolin (Apollo), Plotoun (Pluto), and _Tirmagaunt_. Lybeaus Disconus (Ritson, Met. Rom. ii. 55) fought with a giant 'that levede yn Termagaunt.' The Old French form is _Tervagant_, Ital. _Tervagante_ or _Trivigante_, as in Ariosto. Wheeler, in his Noted Names of Fiction, gives the following account--'Ugo Foscolo says: "_Trivigante_, whom the predecessors of Ariosto always couple with Apollino, is really Diana _Trivia_, the sister of the classical Apollo.".... According to Panizzi, _Trivagante_ or _Tervagante_ is the Moon, or Diana, or Hecate, _wandering under three names_. _Termagant_ was an imaginary being, supposed by the crusaders, who confounded Mahometans with pagans, to be a Mahometan deity. This imaginary personage was introduced into early English plays and moralities, and was represented as of a most violent character, so that a ranting actor might always appear to advantage in it. See Hamlet, iii. 2. 15.' Fairfax, in his translation of Tasso (c. i. st. 84), speaks of Termagaunt and Mahound, but Tasso mentions 'Macometto' only. See also Spenser, F. Q. vi. 7. 47. Hence comes our _termagant_ in the sense of a noisy boisterous woman. Shakespeare has--'that hot [192] _termagant_ Scot'; 1 Hen. IV., v. 2. 114. Cf. Ritson's note, Met. Rom. iii. 257. 2002. _slee_, will slay. In Anglo-Saxon, there being no distinct future tense, it is expressed by the present. Cf. _go_ for _will go_ in 'we also _go_ with thee'; John xxi. 3.