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Griffon, Griffin n.

(Myth.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.

(Her.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.

(Zool.) A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir. (Written also gryphon)

An English early apple.

Griffon n. One of a European breed of rough-coated dogs, somewhat taller than the setter and of a grizzly liver color. They are used in hunting game birds. The Brussels griffon is a very small, wiry-coated, short-nosed pet dog of Belgian origin.

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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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