Big-endians, big-end'i-anz, in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a religious sect in Lilliput. They are represented as regarding it a matter of duty to break egg-shells at the big end. The Little-endians broke eggs at the little end, and considered the Big-endians heretics. The Big-endians stood for the Catholic church, the Little-endians for the Protestants. See GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy.-A Voyage to Lilliput.