The bones he cracks [hence the appropriateness of the name ossifrage, i.e., "bone-breaker"] by letting them fall on a rock from a great height. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)
It well deserves its name ossifrage, bone breaker, for "not only does he push kids and lambs and even men off the rocks, but he takes the bones of animals that other birds of prey have denuded of the flesh high up into the air and lets them fall upon a stone in order to crack them and render them more digestible even for his enormous powers of deglutition. ❋ Unknown (1884)
DEU 14: 12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, ❋ Unknown (2006)
“Not to eat the pelican, nor the ossifrage, nor the griffin, nor the ixion, nor the eel, nor the hare, because the hare ruminates, and has not its foot cloven.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray ❋ Unknown (2006)
Got one step closer to eliminating spam in my ossifrage guestbook. ❋ Ailbhe (2006)
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray ❋ Unknown (2006)
First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage. ❋ Unknown (2003)
_ -- Says Pliny, the extremity of the intestine of the ossifrage, if worn as an amulet, is well known to be an excellent remedy for colic. ❋ George Barton Cutten (N/A)
From our imperfect knowledge of the natural history of Palestine, Arabia, and the contiguous countries at that time, it is not easy to determine exactly what some of the prohibited birds were; although they must have been all well known among the people to whom these laws were given. the ossifrage -- Hebrew, "bone-breaker," rendered in the Septuagint ❋ Unknown (1871)
What is the full name of the research partner of a cryptographer who's first name matches the name of a dog on a tv show which has featured a vessel named after the video game played in a movie filmed near the largest city served by the United States telephone area code matching the greatest prime factor of the number of the asteroid named after the person possibly killed by a squeamish ossifrage? ❋ Unknown (2009)
LEV 11: 13 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, ❋ Unknown (2009)
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, ❋ Unknown (2009)
Lev 11: 13 And these [are they which] ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, ❋ Unknown (2009)
The fierce, ossifragant force of [Humbaba's] blows would have hurt any men but [Enkidu] and [Gilgamesh]. ❋ The_ossifragant_force (2010)
