auguries

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. [1913 Webster]

2.An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. [1913 Webster]

From their flight strange auguries she drew.— Drayton.[1913 Webster]

He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness.— Prescott.[1913 Webster]

3.A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur. [1913 Webster]