Hypertext Webster Gateway: "osprey"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Osprey
Heb. 'ozniyyah, an unclean bird according to the Mosaic law
(Lev. 11:13; Deut. 14:12); the fish-eating eagle (Pandion
haliaetus); one of the lesser eagles. But the Hebrew word may be
taken to denote the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus of
Southern Europe), one of the most abundant of the eagle tribe
found in Palestine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Osprey \Os"prey\, Ospray \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}.] (Zo["o]l.)
The fishhawk.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
osprey
n : large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and
builds a bulky nest often occupied for years [syn: {fish
hawk}, {fish eagle}, {sea eagle}, {Pandion haliaetus}]
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