 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 844 pages
...in general, see DKAOON. The G. is variously described and represented, but the shape most frequent is that of an animal generated between a lion and...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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 988 pages
...conceptions in general, of which the griffin is one, has already been considered under DRAGON (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... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1900 - 770 pages
...Geraint and Enid." Griffin, The, is a chimerical creature, and first mentioned by Aristeas about 600 BC The griffin is variously described and represented,...shape in which it most frequently appears is that of a cross between a lion and an eagle, having the body and legs of the former, with the beak and wings... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1900 - 708 pages
...Knid." «.! Hii M. The, is a chimerical creature, and first mentioned by Aristeas about fiOl) 1!. ('. The griffin is variously described and represented,...shape in which it most frequently appears is that of a cross between a lion and an eagle, having the body and legs of the former, with the beak and wings... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1908 - 862 pages
...Gri'fHn* A chimerical creature, which the fancy of the modern has adopted from that of the ancient world. The Griffin is variously described and represented,...but the shape in which it most frequently appears ia that of an animal having the body and legs of the lion with the beak and wings of the eagle. Like... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1909 - 922 pages
...of the modern has adopted from that of the ancient world. The (.¡riffin is variously described und represented, but the shape in which it most frequently appears is that of an animal having the body and legs of the lion with the beak and wings of the eagle. Like all other monsters,... | |
 | James Cooke Mills - Nature - 1910 - 444 pages
...ornamented with a figure of that mythical animal, which was frequently represented as a cross bebetween a lion and an eagle, having the body and legs of the former and the beak and wings of the latter. Hennepin, however, in his narrative relates that the name was... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1916 - 936 pages
...Mln. A chimerical creature, which the fancy of the modern has adopted from that of the ancient world. The Griffin is variously described and represented,...which it most frequently appears is that of an animal having the body and legs of the lion with the beak and wings of the eagle. Like all other monsters,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 988 pages
...Grl'ftln. A chimerical creature, which the fancy of the modern has adopted from that of the ancient world. The Griffin is variously described and represented,...which it most frequently appears is that of an animal having the body and legs of the lion with the beak and wings of the eagle. Like all other monsters,... | |
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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... 
