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Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

In a foreboding manner.

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

A foreboding. [Obs.]

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

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

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

A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

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.…

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.

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

; to 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.

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.

he character 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.

s; -- 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,…