Grasshopper (The).

A compound of seven animals. (Anglo-Saxon, grœshoppa.)

“It has the head of a horse, the neck of an ox, the wings of a dragon, the feet of a camel, the tail of a serpent, the horns of a stag, and the body of a scorpion.”—Caylus: Oriental Tales (The Four Talismans).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Grani
Granite City (The)
Granite Redoubt (The)
Granite State (The)
Grantorto
Grapes
Grass
Grass Widow
Grasshopper
Grasshopper (The)
Grassmarket
Grassum or Gersome
Gratiano
Grave
Grave
Grave-diggers (Hamlet)
Grave Maurice
Grave Searchers
Grave as a Judge
Grave as an Owl