Category:Augury

Au"gu*ry, n.; pl. Auguries (. Etym: [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.