grype

Etymology 1

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of gripe

Etymology 2

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

noun

1. (obsolete) A 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
   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
   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