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Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. i.) To predict; to prognosticate; to foreshow; to conjecture from signs or omens;

2. (n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

3. (n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.

4. (v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

5. (v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.


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