augur /öˈgər/

1. Among the ancient Romans, a person who sought knowledge of secret or future things by observing the flight and the cries of birds
2. A diviner
3. A soothsayer
4. Appar an augury or portent (Shakespeare)

To foretell from signs

1. To guess or conjecture
2. To bode or portend

auˈgural /-gū-rəl or -gyər-əl/ adjective

auˈgūrer noun (Shakespeare)

An augur

auˈgurship noun

auˈgūry noun

1. The art or practice of auguring
2. An omen

augur well (or ill) for

To be an encouraging (or discouraging) sign with respect to

• Theban year
• the Bard
• the Bay State
• thebe
• the Beast
• the beast with two backs
• the beautiful people
• the bee's knees
• the belief
• the bends
• Thebes
• the better part of
• the Beyond
• the Big Apple
• the Big C
• the big cats
• the big enchilada
• the Big Smoke
• the big stick
• the birds and the bees
• the bishop has put his foot in it
• the bitch goddess
• the biter bit
• the bitter end
• the Blessed Virgin