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A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

A foreboding. [Obs.]

Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

In a foreboding manner.

Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened. "Ill-boding stars." Shak.

A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

on; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors. His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. J. R. Green.

iviner; a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

Full of augury; foreboding. [Obs.] "Augurous hearts." Chapman.

Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

s take part. Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. Shak. And boding screech owls make the concert full. Shak. Concert pitch. See under Pitch.

To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. More dark and dark our woes. Shak. A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature. Macaulay. There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. W. Irving.…

Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.

Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton.

Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.…

Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs.] Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. Milton.

complish an end. What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind Philips.

Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.] That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Shak.

augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.