grype

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noun

A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.

OriginMiddle English gripe ← Old French gripe ← Latin gryps →
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Meanings

grype1

verbgrype (third-person singular simple present grypes, present participle gryping, simple past and past participle gryped)

present singular third person grypes · participle present gryping · participle past gryped · past gryped

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of gripe.

grype2

noungrype (plural grypes)

plural grypes · alternative gripe

  1. obsoleteA vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.

    One grype-ſchill, with a covering, gilt, […]

    1758 [1540], “The Inventory of such Things as were kept in the Church of Fountains”, in John Burton, editor, Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, York: […] for the Author, by N. Nickson, […], page 144
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    His faders deed bodye..he devyded to an hondred grypes lest he sholde ryde from dethe to lyfe.

    1520, Chronicles of England; quoted in “Gripe, sb.³”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 430, column 1

    O my child, grypes make their nests of gold though their coates are feathers; […]

    1588 (first recorded performance; first printed in 1592), John Lilly, “Gallathea”, in The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (The Euphuist.) With Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings by F. W. Fairholt, […]., volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], published 1858, page 237

    Like a white Hinde vnder the grypes ſharpe clawes, […]

    1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature E2, recto

    The vncleane eate not: to witte, the eagle, and the grype, and the oſprey, the ringtaile, and the vulture and kite according to their kinde: […]

    1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomie 14:12–13, page 427

    I dreamed a grype and a grimlie beast / Had carryed my crowne away, / My gorgett and my kirtle of golde, / And all my faire heade-geere.

    a. 1767, “Sir Aldingar”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part III, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, published 1885, page 45

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekγρῡ́ψ
  2. Latingryps
  3. Old Frenchgripe
  4. Middle Englishgripe
  5. Englishgrype

From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin gryps, grȳphus, from Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps).

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