Dictionary entry

Osprey

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ 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.