foreshow
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Pipe.—A visit from a dear friend; several pipes foreshow news from a man who is much in your thoughts.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely
Au′spicate, to foreshow: to initiate or inaugurate with hopes of good luck:—pr.p. au′spicāting; pa.p. au′spicāted.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Stocks.—These sweet scented flowers foreshow an unexpected happiness with someone whom you have not seen for a long while.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely
He well may help these warriors," Sir Hagan straight began, "If ever by good fortune he come to be a man; Yet seems the young king's aspect no long life to foreshow.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Thy father's battle-brand, of yore For Tine-man forged by fairy lore, What time he leagued, no longer foes His Border spears with Hotspur's bows, Did, self-unscabbarded, foreshow The footstep of a secret foe.
From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir
