Brewer's: Hippogriff

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.)

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