Meaning of ossifrage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Gypaetus barbatus, the bearded vulture, the diet of which is almost exclusively bone marrow.
   archaic
2. The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle.
   obsolete
3. The osprey.
   British

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Examples

“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 […]”

“Calcareous lies, slate, and trap⟳ are still to be found there, rising from layers of conglomerate, like⟳ teeth from a gum; but the pickaxe has broken up and leveled those bristling, rugged peaks which were once the fearful perches of the ossifrage.”

“Yes; for these two passions, when they enter⟳ into a man, alter his wisdom and understanding and judgment and wit, and he is like⟳ the Ossifrage which, for precaution against the hunters, abode in the upper air, of the excess of his subtlety […]”

“The aged sisters draw⟳ us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die⟳: over us dead they bend⟳. 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.”

“And their young Ospraies bee counted a kind of Ossifragi: from them come⟳ the lesser Geires, they againe breed⟳ the greater, which engender not at all. Some reckon yet another kind of Ægle, which they cal Barbatæ; and the Tuscanes, Ossifrage.”

“And we were just about To turn⟳ and face⟳ the foe, as some tire⟳ bird Barbarians pelt at, drive⟳ with shouts away From shelter⟳ in what rocks, however rude, She makes for, to escape⟳ the kindled eye, Split⟳ beak, crook'd claw o' the creature, cormorant Or ossifrage, that, hardly baffled, hangs Afloat i' the foam, to take⟳ her if she turn⟳.”

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