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noun- The largest European bird of prey. Also: A large harmless hawk.

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  • Men call the ossifrage; when every soul
  • Got one step closer to eliminating spam in my ossifrage guestbook.
  • But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray
  • “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.”
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