Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Archaic An osprey.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The osprey.
- noun The lammergeier, Gypaëtus barbatus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete, obsolete The lammergeir.
- noun obsolete The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
lammergeier . - noun obsolete The
young of thesea eagle orbald eagle .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bones he cracks [hence the appropriateness of the name ossifrage, i.e., "bone-breaker"] by letting them fall on a rock from a great height.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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It well deserves its name ossifrage, bone breaker, for "not only does he push kids and lambs and even men off the rocks, but he takes the bones of animals that other birds of prey have denuded of the flesh high up into the air and lets them fall upon a stone in order to crack them and render them more digestible even for his enormous powers of deglutition.
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DEU 14: 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
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“Not to eat the pelican, nor the ossifrage, nor the griffin, nor the ixion, nor the eel, nor the hare, because the hare ruminates, and has not its foot cloven.”
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But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray
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But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray
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And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray
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And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray
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First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.
Ulysses 2003
brtom commented on the word ossifrage
"... at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 20, 2007
trivet commented on the word ossifrage
Bone-eating vulture - see Lammergeier.
March 6, 2007
sionnach commented on the word ossifrage
quebrantahuesos
also, osprey
October 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word ossifrage
A bird word I actually missed! All better now. ;-)
October 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word ossifrage
This page hurts my head.
October 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word ossifrage
What, you don't care for occulted sepulchres amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage? Spoilsport.
October 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word ossifrage
Ow. Anyway it wasn't just that, it's the whole page!
October 16, 2007