gryfon

English

Noun

gryfon (plural gryfons)

1. 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.