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Griffon   /grˈɪfən/   Listen
Griffon

noun
1.
Winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion.  Synonyms: griffin, gryphon.
2.
Breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle.  Synonyms: Belgian griffon, Brussels griffon.
3.
Breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France.  Synonym: wire-haired pointing griffon.
4.
Large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings.  Synonyms: griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus.



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... common vulture is the Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis). This is distinguishable from the two species already described by having ...
— Birds of the Indian Hills • Douglas Dewar

... forth. The sum and substance of what was done in those "happy times" may be well described in the words of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler for the year 1058. "This year Alfgar the earl was banished; but he came in again with violence, through aid of Griffin (the king of North Wales, his brother-in-law). And this year came a fleet from Norway. It is tedious to tell how these matters went." These were the normal phenomena of a reign which seemed, to the eyes of monks, a holy ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley

... and Treatises, by Edwards, Smalley, Maxey, Emmons, Griffin, Burge, and Weeks. With an Introductory Essay by Edwards A. Park, Abbot Professor of Christian Theology, Andover, Mass. Boston. Congregational Board of Publication. 8vo. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various

... been half that lost in the eight years prior to that date. Legislation now requires that union members have the opportunity for full participation in the affairs of their unions. The Administration supported the Landrum-Griffin Act, which I believe is greatly helpful to the vast bulk of American Labor and its leaders, and also is a major step in getting racketeers and gangsters out ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Dwight D. Eisenhower • Dwight D. Eisenhower

... lost the Essex election(412) merely from Lord Sandwich interfering in it, and from the Duke of Bedford's speech; a great number of votes going from the city on that account to vote for Luther. Sir John Griffin,(413) who was disobliged by Sandwich's espousing Conyers, went to Chelmsford, at the head of ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole


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