GRIFFE (French for "claw")

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GRIFFE (French for "claw") , an architectural

term

TERM

for the

spur

SPUR (A.S. spura, spora, related to spornan, spurnan, to kick, spurn; cf. M.H.G. sporn, mod. Ger. Sporn)

, an

ornament

ORNAMENT (Lat. ornare, to adorn)

carved at the

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the
primitive
- PRIMITIVE
form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a
bend
- BEND
or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a
bend
- BEND
; both connected with the
Aryan
- ARYAN
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
ank-, to

of the square

base

BASE

of columns.

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