gryfon

English

Noun

gryfon (plural gryfons)

Obsolete form of griffin.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  So th'one for wrong , the other strives for right :
  As when a gryfon , seized of his pray ,
  A dragon fiers encountreth in his flight

References

gryfon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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