Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gold coin of the United States, of the value of $5, or about £1 0s.d. English.

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Examples

  • Flight of the Hippogriff is described as a family coaster that simulates a Hippogriff the half-horse, half-eagle beast from “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” training flight over Hogwarts castle.

    That Potter Park « educating alice 2009

  • Flight of the Hippogriff is described as a family coaster that simulates a Hippogriff the half-horse, half-eagle beast from “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” training flight over Hogwarts castle.

    2009 September 16 « educating alice 2009

  • His helmet was crowned with a plume of egret's feathers, and his features were grotesque and metallic, half-eagle and half-man, with a hooked beak and dark slits for eyes.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • 'There's something about these figures, half-man, half-eagle, that seems the perfect exemplification of force, predatory and fearful.'

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • Hundreds of the savage half-eagle, half-lion creatures were surging through the air toward Kith-Kanan.

    The Kinslayer Wars Niles, Douglas 1991

  • Always he kept his eyes on the heavens, searching for any sign of the magnificent half-lion, half-eagle beasts that he sought.

    The Kinslayer Wars Niles, Douglas 1991

  • The writer has himself seen the hollow half-eagle which bore to Burnside's beleaguered force the welcome tidings that in thirty hours Sherman would relieve Knoxville.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

  • He stuck a half-eagle into the tarry integument of my person.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

  • Lurindy had a half-eagle that John had given her once to keep; and I got a little bundle together and took all the precautions Dr. Sprague advised; and he drove me off in his sleigh, and said, as he was going about sixteen miles to see

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

  • A mythical creature, half-lion, half-eagle, which was supposed to keep guard over hidden treasure.

    Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson

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