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Definition of Ossifrage
1. n. The lammergeir.
Definition of Ossifrage
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ossifrage
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossifrage
Literary usage of Ossifrage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"If much weight is to be allowed to etymology, the peres* of the Hebrew Scriptures
may well be represented by the ossifrage, or bone-breaker ; for peres in ..."
2. Scripture Natural History by Henry Chichester Hart (1888)
"This is the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus), which is the most abundant
eagle in Palestine. [See EAGLE.] ossifrage. See EAGLE. OSTRICH. ..."
3. The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopædia and Scriptural Dictionary, Fully by Samuel Fallows, Andrew Constantinides Zenos, Herbert Lockwood Willett (1910)
"In AV 'ossifrage' (Lev. xi:i3; Deut. xiv:i2). Although Neser is unquestionably
the Hebrew name of the eagle, a genus so conspicuous, and to this moment so ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"—Lat. ossi-, crude form of os, a bone ; and frag-, base of frangere, to break,
cognate with E. break. See Osseous and Break. Doublet, ossifrage. ..."
5. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"If much weight is to be allowed to et y mol ogy, the perú « of the Hebrew Scriptures
may wal) 1* represented by the ossifrage, or bone-breaker; ..."
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