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Webster 1913 Edition
Ospray
{
, Os′prey
,Os′pray
}Noun.
[Through OF. fr. L.
ossifraga
(orig., the bone breaker); prob. influenced by oripelargus
(mountain stork, a kind of eagle, Gr. [GREEK]); cf. OF. orpres
, and F. orfraie
. See Ossifrage
.] (Zool.)
The fishhawk (
Pandion haliaetus
). Webster 1828 Edition
Ospray
OS'PRAY
,Noun.
The sea-eagle, a fowl of the genus Falco or hawk, of the size of a peacock. This is our fish hawk. It feeds on fish which it takes by suddenly darting upon them, when near the surface of the water.