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foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton.

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.

One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak.

To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. It seems to augur genius. Sir W. Scott. I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. J. F. W. Herschel.

An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.

Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

ch is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North.

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

at which is eloquently uttered or written. O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast. Shak.

To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.

Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

To presage; to tell the fortune of. [Obs.] Dryden.

A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm. [Prov. Eng.]

f, 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.

To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To prophesy; to presage. [R. & Obs.] R. Edgeworth.

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.