Word Meanings - AUGURAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.

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• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• STAFFISH
  Stiff; harsh. Ascham.
• BOOKSELLING
  The employment of selling books.
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
• STAFFIER
  An attendant bearing a staff. "Staffiers on foot." Hudibras.
• OMINOUS
  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
• BOOKSHOP
  A bookseller's shop.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BOOKSHELF
  A shelf to hold books.
• STAFF
  The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave. (more info) stab, Icel. stafr, Sw. staf, Dan. stav, Goth. stabs element, rudiment, Skr. sthapay to cause to stand, to place. See Stand, and 1. A long piece of wood;
• BOOKSELLER
  One who sells books.
• BOOKSTORE
  A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
• AUGURSHIP
  The office, or period of office, of an augur. Bacon.
• AUGURY
  1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself
• AUGURAL
  Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.
• STAFFMAN
  A workman employed in silk throwing.
• SIGNIFICANTLY
  In a significant manner.
• SIGNIFICANT
  1. Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look. It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant,
• BOOKSTALL
  A stall or stand where books are sold.
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• BEDSTAFF
  "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.
• GIBSTAFF
  1. A staff to guage water, or to push a boat. 2. A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage. Bailey.
• INSIGNIFICANT
  1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and
• INSIGNIFICANTLY
  without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
• BINOMINOUS
  Binominal.
• CROSS-STAFF
  1. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies. 2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
• ABDOMINOUS
  Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.
• WRINGSTAFF
  A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.
• FLAGSTAFF
  A staff on which a flag is hoisted.