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the preterit of Eat.

One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

lace! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.

A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone.

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

(a) The first or lower course of a foundation wall, made of large stones of a mass of concrete; -- called also foundation course. (b) The architectural member forming the transition between the basement and the wall above. -- Base hit (Baseball), a hit, by which the batsman, without any error on the part of his oppone…

The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.

To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate. [They] bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the allies. Swift.

The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

ster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.

carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification. Cæsar . . . made not here his brag Of "came," and "saw," and "overcame." Shak.

Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

A badger. Or with pretense of chasing thence the brock. B. Jonson.

A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers. [U.S.] Farrow.