Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Hip’pogriff.

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Hip’pocrene (3 syl.).

Hippol’yta.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Hip’pogriff.

The winged horse, whose father was a griffin and mother a filly (Greek, hippos, a horse, and gryphos, a griffin). A symbol of love. (Ariosto: Orlando Furioso, iv. 18, 19.)

“So saying, he caught him up, and without wing

Of hippogrif, bore through the air sublime,

Over the wilderness and o’er the plain.”

Milton: Paradise Regained, iv. 541–3.

(See SIMURGH.)

Hip’pocrene (3 syl.).

Hippol’yta.

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