Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gripe \Gripe\, n. [See {Grype}.] (Zo["o]l.)
   A vulture; the griffin. [Obs.]

         Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.
                                                  --Shak.

   {Gripe's egg}, an alchemist's vessel. [Obs.] --E. Jonson.