augury : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: augury	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for augury
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
augury n an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" Synonym(s): augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Augury \Au"gury\, n.; pl. {Auguries}. [L. aucurium.] 1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. --Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury* of his future greatness. --Prescott. 3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.