A dictionary of the . pure and undefiled word, John 14 : 18, translated com-fortless is orphans in the Greek. OSEE, the Greek form of writing Hosea. Rom. 9 : 25. OSHEA (deliverance), the originalname of Joshua. Num. 13 : 16. OSPRAY, mentioned with the ossi-frage as an unclean bird. Lev. 11: 13;Deut. 14 : 12. If not a generic term foreagles, perhaps the short-toed eagle(Circaetus (jalliewj), by far the mostabundant of the Palestine species. OSSIFRAGE (Heb. the breaker).Thp original word well suits the remark-able habits of the lammergeier, orbearded vulture, known also amon
A dictionary of the . pure and undefiled word, John 14 : 18, translated com-fortless is orphans in the Greek. OSEE, the Greek form of writing Hosea. Rom. 9 : 25. OSHEA (deliverance), the originalname of Joshua. Num. 13 : 16. OSPRAY, mentioned with the ossi-frage as an unclean bird. Lev. 11: 13;Deut. 14 : 12. If not a generic term foreagles, perhaps the short-toed eagle(Circaetus (jalliewj), by far the mostabundant of the Palestine species. OSSIFRAGE (Heb. the breaker).Thp original word well suits the remark-able habits of the lammergeier, orbearded vulture, known also among theAlps, and one of the most formidablebirds of its tribe. It is mentioned withthe ospray, as above. The propriety of OST OST the name ossi-frage— , bone-breaker— is seen from the followingdescription: Marrow- bones are thedainties he (the lammergeyer) loves thebest; and when the other vultures havepicked the flesh off any animal, he comesin at the end of the feast and swallowsthe bones, or breaks them and swallows. Ossifvage or Lammergeier {Gypaetus barbatus). the pieces if he cannot get the marrowout otherwise. The bones he cracks bytaking them to a great height and lettingthem fall upon a stone. This is probablythe bird that dropped a tortoise on thebald head of poor old iEschylus. Not,however, that he restricts himself, or thehuge black infant that he and his mateare bringing up in one of the manyholes with which the limestone precipiceabounds, to marrow, turtle, bones, andsimilar delicacies; neither lamb, hare,nor kid comes amiss to him, though, hispower of claw and beak being feeble forso large a bird, he cannot tear his meatlike other eagles. To make amends forthis, his powers of deglutition are enor-mous.—N. H. Simpson. QSTRICH, a remarkable bird of the hot regions of Africa and Arabia,often attaining the height of 7 feet, ofwhich the head and neck make 3. It isalso 7 feet from the head to the end ofthe tail when the neck is stretched hori-zontally on a line
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