Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OS'PRAY, n. [L. ossifraga; os, a bone, and frango, to break; the bone-breaker.]

The sea-eagle, a fowl of the genus Falco or hawk, of the size of the peacock. This is our fish hawk. It feeds on fish, which it takes by suddenly darting upon them, when near the surface of the water. Encyc.