Definition of "tyger"

Near to Cinyuen, in the Province of Junnan, is the Mountain Nilo, where is great abundance of Tygers and Leopards.]

, London: John Macock, page 240

Jewan Sadit, who ſtood before the prince, obſerving his youthful temerity, threw himſelf between him and danger, and with a nervous arm, wielding a ſharp ſabre, of the hard tempered ſteel of Damiſk, ruſhing upon the tyger, he ſtruck him acroſs the forehead.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 6

Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?

1794, William Blake, “The Tyger”, in Songs Of Experience