ziffius
English edit
Noun edit
ziffius (plural not attested)
- Obsolete form of xiphias.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The horrible sea-satyre , that doth shew
His fearefull face in time of greatest storme ;
Huge ziffius , whom mariners eschew