 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 852 pages
...conceptions in general, of which the G. is one, has already been considered under Dragon (qv). The G. is variously described and represented, but the shape...the former, with the beak and wings of the latter. In this form it appears on antique coins, and as an ornament in classical architecture. Like all other... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 872 pages
...conceptions in general, of which the G. is one, has already been considered under Dragon (qv). The G. is variously described and represented, but the shape...the former, with the beak and wings of the latter. In this form it appears on antique coins, ami as an ornament in classical architecture. Like all other... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 852 pages
...shape iu which it most frequently арреага is that of an animal generated between a lion and ¡in eagle, having the body and legs of the former, with the beak and wings of the latter. In this form it appears on antique coins, and as an ornamdnt in classical architecture. Like all other... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 870 pages
...conceptions in general, of which the G. is one, has already been considered under Dragon (qv). The G. is variously described and represented, but the shape...the former, with the beak and wings of the latter. In this form it appears on antique coins, and aa an ornament in classical architecture. Like all other... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 868 pages
...considered under Dragon (qv). The G. is variously described and represented, but the shape in which it moat frequently appears is that of an animal generated...the former, with the beak and wings of the latter. In this form it appears on antique coins, and as an ornament in classical architecture. Like all other... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 842 pages
...already been considered tinder Dragon (qv). The G. is variously described and represented, but the shupe in which it most frequently appears is that of an animal generated between n lion and an eagle, having the body and legs of the former, witli the beak and wings of the latter.... | |
 | Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 502 pages
...vicinity of the Arimuspians, a Scythian race, from the attempts of the people to possess themselves of it. The griffin is variously described and represented,...the former, with the beak and wings of the latter. In this form it appears on antique coins, and as an ornament in classical architecture. Like all other... | |
 | Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 538 pages
...of the Ariuiaspians, a Scythian race, from the attempts of the people to possess themselves of it. The griffin is variously described and represented,...that of an animal generated between a lion and an eagh-, having the body and lega of the former, with the beak and wings of the latter. In this form... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 986 pages
...conceptions in jgeneral, of •which the griffin is one, has already been considered under DUAGON (qv). The griffin is variously described and represented,...the former, with the beak and wings of the latter. In this form it appears on. antique coins, and as an ornament in classical architecture. Like all other... | |
 | Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1893 - 492 pages
...the arsenal. The Griffin is a chimerical creature, and first mentioned by Aristeas about 500 B.с. The griffin is variously described and represented,...shape in which it most frequently appears is that of a cross between alion'andan eagle, having the body ana legs of the former, with the beak and wings... | |
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G. is variously described and represented, but the shape in which it most frequently appears is that of an animal generated between a lion and an eagle, having the body and legs of the former, with the beak and wings of the latter. In this form it appears... 
