osprey, ospray

[A corrupt. of o ifrage, from Lat. o ifraga lit. the bone-breaking (bird): os (gen it. o is )=a bone, and frag-, root of frango = to break.] Ornith.: Pandion haliactus , the Fish-hawk, Bald Buzzard, or Fishing Eagle. A bird of prey, of almost world-wide distribution, subsisting on fish. The osprey is about long, with a wing-expanse nearly three times as great. The plumage is dark brown, white on the under surface, with a few streaks of brown on the throat; crown light brown edged with white, and a streak of dark brown from the eye to the shoulders. Ospreys nest usually near the sea-shore, and, unlike rapacious birds generally, are in some measure gregarious. In North America large communities of ospreys are found, and the Purple Grakle often builds close by. The osprey lays three or four eggs of a rich red to buffy white, with large reddish and brown markings, [PANDION.] *õ , *o e, s. [Gr. o a a voice, an omen.] A word uttered unawares or at random, and supposed to presage something; an omen, an augury. (P. Holland : Livy , p. 8.) *õ , v. i. [O , s.] To prophesy, to presage. ŏs-są, s. pl. [Os (1).] os-se-an, subst. [Lat. o eus bony, from os =a bone.] A bony fish; one of the o eous cla of fishes. os-se-in, s. [Lat. o a (q. v.); Eng. suff. -in.] Anatomy: 1. Bone cartilage; a gelatinous ti ue left when earthy matter is eliminated from the substance of a bone. 2. Bony ti ue in general. [OSTEINE.] chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; ŏs-se-lět, s. [Fr. a little bone, dim in. from Lat. os a bone.] 1. A little hard substance arising on the inside of a horse's knee, among the small bones; it grows out of a gummy substance which fastens those bones together. ( Farrier's Dict.) 2. The internal bone of some cuttle-fishes. ŏs-se-oŭs, a . [Lat. o eus , from os (gen it. o is) =a bone; Fr. o eux ; Sp. oseo ; Ital. o eo.] Bony of the nature of or resembling bone; consisting of bone. o eous-breccia, subst. [BONE-BRECCIA, CAVE BRECCIA.] o eous-fishes, s . pl . A sub-cla of fishes established by Cuvier. It consists of those in which the skeleton is bony as opposed to cartilaginous. Now nearly coëxtensive with Teleostei (q. v.). o eous-ti ue, s. Anat.: An organized animal fibrous basis, one third gelatinous, the other two-thirds partly earthy and partly saline matter. The gelatinous matter imparts tenacity, the earthy and saline matter give hardne and rigidity to the bone. Ös-si-ăn-Ic, a. [See def.] Pertaining or relating to O ian, the Celtic poet, or to his poems; resembling the poems of O ian. ŏs'-si-cle, os-si-cule, os-sic'-u-lum ( pl . ŏ ic-u-la), s. [Lat. o iculum , dim in. of os (gen it. o is)=a bone; Fr. o icule .] 1. Anat . ( pl .): Small bones of the ear: the malleus, the incus, and the stapes. They collectively constitute a single armed lever. 2. Zool ., & c . ( pl .): Any hard structure of small size, as the calcareous plates in the integuments of star-fishes.