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▪ I. gant, gaunt, n. Sc.|gɑːnt, gɔːnt|
[f. next.]
A yawn, a gape; gaping.
1513Douglas æneis vi. viii. 36 The soundis brak with gasping, or a gant. 17..The Ghaist 4 When the lang drawlin' gaunt, an' drowsy ee, Shaw't bed-time come. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 160 They..put up their hands to their chafts to conceal a bit gaunt.
▪ II. gant, gaunt, v. Sc.|gɑːnt, gɔːnt|
Forms: 6, 9 gant, 8–9 gaunt.
[? repr. an OE. *gánęttan, freq. f. gánian to yawn: see gane v.]
intr. To yawn, gape.
1513Douglas æneis iii. viii. 144 Quhen he list gant or blaw, the fire is bett. 1715Ramsay Christ's Kirke Gr. ii. xviii, Ilk weary wight Was gaunting for his rest. 1790Burns ‘Kind Sir, I've read your paper through’ 4 This mony a day I've grain'd and gaunted, To ken [etc.]. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. x, I never ask what brings the Laird of Dumbiedikes glowering here..day after day, till we are a' like to gaunt our chafts aff. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xxvi. 272 When he gants his last on a rickle of cauld stanes.
Hence ˈganting, ˈgaunting, vbl. n.
1568G. Skeyne The Pest (1860) 12 Ganting of mowthe. 1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 53 Of the which commeth ganting, rifting, winds. a1605Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 346 All groomes, when thou greits, at thy ganting bee agast. 1850Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) (1890) II. ii. 54 Awa' wi' your gaunting!
▪ III. gant(e
obs. form of gannet. |