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The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" Dryden.

Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. Shak. -- Mis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Mis*trust"ful*ness, n.

haracter of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury. Bid go with evil omen, and the brand Of infamy upon my name. Milton.

- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread. He had a good ominous name to have made a peace. Bacon. In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. South. -- Om"i*nous*ly, adv.…

Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. "Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt." Encyc. Brit.

The act of foreshowing; foreboding. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.

The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Foreboding; ominous. [Obs.]

ething unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.

Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. [R.] Coleridge.

o sooner said out his say, but up rises a cunning snap. L'Estrange. That strange palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear Full on the object of his fear. Sir W. Scott.

Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance. Bar sinister. (Her.) See under Bar, n. -- Sinister aspect (Astrol.), an appearance of two planets happening according to the succession of the signs, as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini. -- Sinister base, Sinis…

Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak.