GULLIVER

GULLIVER
   the hero of Swift's satirical romance entitled "Gulliver's Travels," which records his adventures among the pigmies of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, the quacks of Laputa, and the HOUYHNHNMS (q.v.).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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