OSPREY

A bird of the eagle kind, unfit for food, Le 11:13. It is thought to be the sea eagle, or the black eagle of Egypt. See BIRDS.

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Osprey. Osprey
Heb. ‘ozniyyah, an unclean bird according to the Mosaic law (Lev. 11:13; Deut. 14:12); the fish-eating eagle (Pandion haliaetus); one of the lesser eagles. But the Hebrew word may be taken to denote the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus of Southern Europe), one of the most abundant of the eagle tribe found in Palestine.

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OSPREY. → A carnivorous bird → Forbidden as food Le 11:13; De 14:12

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{ Os″prey, Os″pray } (?), n. [[Through OF. fr. L. ossifraga (orig., the bone breaker); prob. influenced by oripelargus (mountain stork, a kind of eagle, Gr. �); cf. OF. orpres, and F. orfraie. See Ossifrage.]] (Zoöl.) The fishhawk.