Noun

(en noun)

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*:Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym

:(Holland)

A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.

:a fruit medley

*Addison

*:this medley of philosophy and war

*W. Walsh

*:Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.

(music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.

:They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.

(swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.

A cloth of mixed colours.

:(Fuller)

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.}}