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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  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.
  
     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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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" [syn: {sign}, {foretoken}, {preindication}]

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