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cured, remained a cripple for life.
   The symbol of this saint is a hind, in allusion to the "heaven-directed hind" which went daily to his cave near the mouth of the Rhone to give him milk. He is sometimes represented as an old man with an arrow in his knee and a hind by his side.
   St. Giles's parish. Generally situated in the outskirts of a city, and originally without the walls, cripples and beggars not being permitted to pass the gates.
   Hopping or Hobbling Giles. A lame person; so called from St. Giles, the tutelar saint of cripples. (See Cripplegate.)
   Lame as St. Giles', Cripplegate. (See above.)

Giles Overreach (Sir). A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Massinger. The "Academy figure" of this character was Sir Giles Mompesson, a notorious usurer, banished the kingdom for his misdeeds.