ornithomancy

English

Etymology

ornitho- +‎ -mancy

Noun

ornithomancy (uncountable)

1. Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.

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Translations

divination by means of birds

• Arabic: تَطَيُّر m (taṭayyur), طِيَرَة f (ṭiyara), طِيرَة f (ṭīra)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ornithomancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)