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noun

Griffin n. An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe.

Griffon, Griffin n.

(Myth.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.

(Her.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.

(Zool.) A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir. (Written also gryphon)

An English early apple.

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... following minerals, according to Griffin, produce beads with soda, but do not fuse when heated alone: quartz, agalmatolyte, dioptase, hisingerite, sideroschilosite, ...

— A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe • Anonymous

... designated three seagoing officers, Capt. Richard Wainwright, Commander Robert S. Griffin, and Lieut. Commander Albert L. Key, all graduates of the Academy, to investigate conditions and to recommend to me the best method of carrying into effect this general recommendation. These officers performed the duty promptly and intelligently, ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... her—not in his love, for that and any return on her part she had resolved never to dwell upon, and she kept rigidly to her resolution—but in the respect and high regard which she had hoped would have ever made him willing, in the spirit of Gerald Griffin's beautiful lines, ...

— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... ago we went to Mr. Griffin's, and met there Dr. Prichard, the author of a well-known Book on the Races of Mankind, to which it stands in the same relation among English books as the Racing Calendar does to those of Horsekind. He is a very intelligent, accomplished person. We had also there the Dean; ...

— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle

... spacious wooden building of two floors. The office was in this building at first, until removed to the brick library when that was finished. There S. L. Griffin, an old telegraph friend of Edison, acted as his secretary and had charge of a voluminous and amazing correspondence. The office employees were the Carman brothers and the late John F. Randolph, afterwards secretary. According to ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

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