Augur: Definition and part of speech

Augur

  1. n. One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.
  2. n. An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.
  3. v. i. To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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