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le 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, adv. -- Om"i*nous*ness, n.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

Binominal. [Obs.]

Having many names or terms.

To be ominous. [Obs.] Dryden.

Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.

Portentous; ominous. Carlyle.

Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- Bod"ing*ly, adv.

Significant of fate; ominous. The fateful cawings of the crow. Longfellow. -- Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers. Shak. He had been heard to utter an ominous growl. Macaulay.

A prophetic or ominous utterance. [R. & Obs.] Holland.

Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining. [R.] We want no half gods, panomphean Joves. Mrs. Browning.

Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay.

Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.

That which is presaged, or foretold. [R.] "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.

Foreboding; ominous. [Obs.]

, but up rises a cunning snap. L'Estrange. That strange palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear Full on the object of his fear. Sir W. Scott.

Significant; ominous; serving as a warning of danger; --applied esp. to the warning colors or forms of certain animals.

A person of a short, fat figure. Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.