grype

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

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe.

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

• gripe

grype (plural grypes)

1. (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
   • 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:

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

   • 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), volumes IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 430, column 1:

     His faders deed bodye..he devyded to an hondred grypes lest he sholde ryde from dethe to lyfe.

   • 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:

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

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

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

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

     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: […]

   • 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:

     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.

grype

1. ablative singular of gryps

grype

1. alternative form of gripe (“grip”)

grype

1. alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)

grype

1. alternative form of gripen

grype

1. alternative form of grippe