OS'PRAY, noun [Latin ossifraga; as, a bone, and frango, to break; the bone-breaker.] The sea-eagle, a fowl of the genus Falco or hawk, of the size of a peacock. This is our fish hawk. It feeds on fish which it takes by suddenly darting upon them, when near the surface of the water.
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