Noun

(auguries)

A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.

(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.

* (Edgar Allan Poe)

In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.

An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=2 citation , passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}