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uture by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 10.

Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

Divination by means of flour. Encyc. Brit.

Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] Morin.

A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.] Encyc. Brit.

Divination by inspecting a burning coal.

Divination by the entrails of human being.

Divination by means of numbers.

Divination by means of small bones or dice.

Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic. [R.] Dr. H. More.

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

A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.

A species of divination, which was perforned by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

Divination by dropping melted wax in water.