See also:

• GRAMPUS (Orca gladiator, or Orca orca)

GRAMPUS (Orca gladiator, or Orca orca)  , a cetacean belonging to the Delphinidae or See also:

• DOLPHIN

dolphin See also:

• FAMILY

family, characterized by its rounded See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head without distinct See also:

• BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)

beak, high dorsal fin and large conical See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth . The upper parts are nearly See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform glossy See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black, and the under parts See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white, with a See also:

• STRIP

strip of the same See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour over each See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye . The O . Fr. word was grapois, graspeis or craspeis, from Med . See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• CRASSUS (literally " dense," " thick," " fat ")

crassus piscis, See also:

• FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)

fat See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish . This was adapted into See also:

• ENGLISH

English as grapeys, graspeys, &c., and in the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century becomes graunde pose as if from See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• POISSON, SIMEON DENIS (1781-1840)

poisson . The final corruption to " See also:

• GRAMPUS (Orca gladiator, or Orca orca)

grampus " appears in the 18th century and was probably nautical in origin . The See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal is also known as the " killer," in allusion to its ferocity in attacking its See also:

• PREY (0. Fr. preie, mod. proie, Lat. praeda, booty, from prae and the root hed—seen in prehendere, prendere, to grasp)

prey, which consists largely of See also:

• SEALS

seals, porpoises and the smaller dolphins . Its fierceness is only equalled by its voracity, which is such that in a specimen measuring 21 ft. in length, the remains of thirteen seals and thirteen porpoises were found, in a more or less digested See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, while the animal appeared to have been choked in the endeavour to See also:

• SWALLOW (A. S. swalewe, Icel. svala, Du. zwaluw, Ger. Schwalbe)

swallow another See also:

• SEAL
• SEAL, FUR
• SEAL, HAIR

seal, the skin of which was found entangled in its teeth . These cetaceans sometimes See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

hunt in packs or See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools, and commit See also:

• GREAT

great havoc among the belugas or white whales, which occasionally throw themselves ashore to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape their persecutors . The grampus is an inhabitant of See also:

• NORTHERN

northern seas, occurring on the shores of See also:

• GREENLAND (Danish, &c., Gronland)

Greenland, and having been caught, although rarely, as far See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south as the Mediterranean . There are numerous instances of its See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture on the See also:

• BRITISH

British coasts .