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Stoup galland, Stoupe gallant, n. [Stoup v. and Galland n.1] A name given to a disease. —1570 Leslie 81.
Thair wes ane seknes universallie in the moneth of September in Scotland, throucht hoist, quhilk infectit utheris lyke ane pestilence, quhairof mony deit, and it wes callit be the peple stoup galland 1596 Dalr. II 133/3 (see Stoup v. 3). 1657 Balfour Ann. I 232.
Ane epidemick seiknes, … this the comons (being wntouched … ) named it Stoupe Gallant
