Hippogriff
(n.) A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. | ||||
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Hippogriff Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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HIPPOGRIFF
Hippogriff, (n.)
An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
Hippogriff, (n.)
An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
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hippogriff
hippogriff
\hip"po*griff\ (?), n. [f. hippogriffe; cf. it. ippogrifo. see hippopotamus, griffon.] (myth.) a fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.
hippogriff
\hip"po*griff\ (?), n. [f. hippogriffe; cf. it. ippogrifo. see hippopotamus, griffon.] (myth.) a fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin.
Hippogriff Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Hippogriff
A magical creature which has the head and talons of an eagle and the back, hind legs and tail of a horse.
Origin:
Hippogriff - "hippo" is Greek for "horse", "griff" comes from the Latin word "griffin" (part human, lion, and eagle).
A magical creature which has the head and talons of an eagle and the back, hind legs and tail of a horse.
Origin:
Hippogriff - "hippo" is Greek for "horse", "griff" comes from the Latin word "griffin" (part human, lion, and eagle).
Hippogriff Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Hippogriff
A Hippogriff (also spelled Hippogryph and Hippogryphe) is a legendary creature, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a mare. Ludovico Ariosto's poem, Orlando furioso (1516) contains an early description (canto IV):
- XVIII
- No empty fiction wrought by magic lore,
- But natural was the steed the wizard pressed;
- For him a filly to griffin bore;
- Hight hippogryph. In wings and beak and crest,
- Formed like his sire, as in the feet before;
- But like the mare, his dam, in all the rest.
- Such on Riphaean hills, though rarely found,
- Are bred, beyond the frozen ocean's bound.
- XIX
- Drawn by enchantment from his distant lair,
- The wizard thought but how to tame the foal;
- And, in a month, instructed him to bear
- Saddle and bit, and gallop to the goal;
- And execute on earth or in mid air,
- All shifts of manege, course and caracole;
- He with such labour wrought. This only real,
- Where all the rest was hollow and ideal.
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