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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

adumbration, anticipation, astrology, auspice, betokening, betokenment, boding, clairvoyance, crystal ball, crystal gazing, divination, divining, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, fortunetelling, haruspication, haruspicy, horoscopy, indicant, indication, mantic, mantology, omen, palm-reading, palmistry, portent, prefiguration, preindication, premonition, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presentiment, presignifying, prognostic, prognostication, promise, pythonism, shadow, sign, soothsay, sorcery, token, tokening, type

Dictionary Results for augury:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

augury
    n 1: an event that is experienced as indicating important things
         to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from
         God" [syn: augury, sign, foretoken, preindication]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Augury \Au"gu*ry\, n.; pl. Auguries. [L. aucurium.]
   1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the
      actions of birds, etc.; divination.
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   2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the
      future; presage.
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            From their flight strange auguries she drew.
                                                  --Drayton.
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            He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave
            little augury of his future greatness. --Prescott.
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   3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
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