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Ossifrage   Listen
noun
Ossifrage  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
The lammergeir.
(b)
The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ossifrage" Quotes from Famous Books



... intelligence and a keen wit and excelling, and tell me can desire and lust change these his qualities?"—"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[FN106] which, for precaution against the hunters, abode in the upper air, of the excess of his subtlety; but, as he was thus, he saw a fowler set up his nets and when the toils were firmly staked down bait them with a bit of meat; ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton



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