LekhoriLekhoriA divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
From augur + -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.
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