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One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak.

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.

One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.

A relater; a storyteller.

A teller of news; especially, one who spreads false reports. Shak.

ge edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. [Written also Rhytina.]

sea lion (Otaria jubata) of the South American coast; the northern sea lion (Eumetopias Stelleri) found from California to Japan; and the black, or California, sea lion (Zalophus Californianus), which is common on the rocks near San Francisco.

A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess. "An old highland sibyl." Sir W. Scott.

A female fortune teller. [Scot.]

as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.

A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. B. Jonson.

One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. [Poetic.] Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.

as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallies in the exchequer has been abolished. Wharton (Law. Dict.) -- Writer's cramp, palsy, or spasm (Med.), a painful spasmodic affection of the muscles of the fingers, brought on by excessive use, as i…