alpe

[Boucher thinks it is from alp = a mountain, to which the tufted head of the bird is hyperbolically compared.] A bullfinch. "For there was many a bridde syngyng, Thorough out the yerde al thringyng. In many places were nyghtyngales, Alpes , fynches, and wodewales." Chaucer: Rom . of Rose , 655-8. * ǎlpe, s. [A.S. elp.] An elephant. ( Old Scotch.) Alpes - bon ( alpes = alpc's = elephant's; bon =bone): Ivory. "Thei made her bod i blo and blac, Thater was white so alpes - bon ." Leg. Cathol ., p. 185. ( Hall i well .) al-pěn-glow, 8. [Ger. Alpen = the Alps; gluhe glowing, ignition.] The glow from "On August August 23, 23, 1869, 18 the evening Alpen - glow was very fine." Tyndall: Frag. of Science, x. 282.