scry

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɹaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

From descry < Middle English decrien < Old French descrier

Verb

scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)

1. To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects.

   The fortune teller claimed she could scry [into] the future.

2. (obsolete) To descry; to see.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Translations

predict the future using crystal balls or other objects

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: katsoa kristallipallosta
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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Translations to be checked

• Japanese: 占術 (せんじゅつ, senjutsu)

Derived terms

• scryer

Etymology 2

Middle English ascrie

Noun

scry (plural scries)

1. (obsolete) A cry or shout.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ld. Berners to this entry?)

2. A flock of wildfowl.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.