Obs. [a. F. euripe, ad. L. eurīpus, a. Gr. εὔρῑπος: see EURIPUS.] = EURIPUS.

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1600.  Holland, Livy, XLIIII. xi. 1177. On the other side there is an Euripe or arm of the sea.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., III. iv. I. i. A sea full of shelves and rocks, sands, gulfes, Euripes and contrary tides.

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1623.  Drumm. of Hawth., Cypress Grove, Wks. (1711), 119. What Euripe … doth change so often as Man?

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1656–81.  Blount, Glossogr., Euripe, any strait, fret or Channel of the Sea, running between two shoars.

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  fig.  1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. xiii. 366. Nor can he [a man] ever perish but in the Euripe of Ignorance.

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