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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of griffin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An obsolete or archaic spelling of griffin.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Alternative form of griffin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The griffin vulture.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion

Examples

  • “The gryphon was a certainty; she considered other possibilities that the Hawkbrothers might bring.”

    Owlsight

  • “And I ended, "The gryphon is the badge of the House of Ulm. Did I then see the Lord Kerovan to whom I am wed?”

    The Crystal Gryphon

  • “gryphon" when speaking of the sea-currents which drive ships from Malabar to Madagascar.”

    The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

  • “Sigil: It would be a gryphon, a creature with the body of a lion and a head of an eagle.”

    Free Beer! The Stars of Game of Thrones Pick Their Sigil, Issue Royal Edicts

  • “Galen," I acknowledged, approaching the gryphon slowly.”

    Valentines, part the first

  • “Feels like a flutter of wings in my mind, in my belly, in my hands, in my heart - and I know things, things about the way life used to be, campfire stories, the gryphon … she kisses me, and I feel like I know everything; I am dizzy and fair to bursting.”

    Valentines, part the first

  • “A far-off gryphon in flight, by sweetevangeline. 4x5 acrylic painting.”

    Valentines, part the first

  • “They drive all the way across the country, her and the sphinx and the gryphon and the mermaid.”

    Valentines, part the first

  • “Revisit the fortune-teller and the jewel-queens, Galen the gryphon and the muses at the end of the world, Shayara and Places You Haunt!”

    Come on a train trip with us!

  • “Also, at yeti haters: You realize that the gryphon et al have to approach to engage him in a fight?”

    Fantasy League.

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  • milosrdenstvi A form I much prefer to griffin.

    This also has the much-sought rare distinction of containing the three consecutive letters 'gry', though not ending with them. Aug 18, 2008

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