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os·si·frage
/ˈɑsəfrɪʤ, ˌfreʤ/
魚鷹
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Os·si·frage
n.
Zool.
(a)
The
lammergeir
.
(b)
The
young
of
the
sea
eagle
or
bald
eagle
. [
Obs
.]
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From:
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Ossifrage
Heb
.
peres
=
to
"
break
"
or
"
crush
",
the
lammer-geier
,
or
bearded
vulture
,
the
largest
of
the
whole
vulture
tribe
.
It
was
an
unclean
bird
(
Lev
. 11:13;
Deut
. 14:12).
It
is
not
a
gregarious
bird
,
and
is
found
but
rarely
in
Palestine
. "
When
the
other
vultures
have
picked
the
flesh
off
any
animal
,
he
comes
in
at
the
end
of
the
feast
,
and
swallows
the
bones
,
or
breaks
them
,
and
swallows
the
pieces
if
he
cannot
otherwise
extract
the
marrow
.
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
.
He
does
not
,
however
,
confine
himself
to
these
delicacies
,
but
whenever
he
has
an
opportunity
will
devour
lambs
,
kids
,
or
hares
.
These
he
generally
obtains
by
pushing
them
over
cliffs
,
when
he
has
watched
his
opportunity
;
and
he
has
been
known
to
attack
men
while
climbing
rocks
,
and
dash
them
against
the
bottom
.
But
tortoises
and
serpents
are
his
ordinary
food...No
doubt
it
was
a
lammer-geier
that
mistook
the
bald
head
of
the
poet
AEschylus
for
a
stone
,
and
dropped
on
it
the
tortoise
which
killed
him
" (
Tristram's
Nat
.
Hist
.).
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