▪ I. † ˈaugure1 Obs.
Also 7 augur.
[a. F. augure (12th c.), ad. L. augurium (substituted for the popular OF. aür, eür = mod. heur in bonheur, malheur).]
By-form of augury.
| 1475 Bk. Noblesse 59 To lerne and know by augures, and divinacions of briddis. 1603 Florio Montaigne i. xxi. (1632) 47 As a good Augur or foreboding of a martiall minde. 1666 Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 178 With which happy augure permit me..to subscribe myself, etc. |
▪ II. † ˈaugure2 Obs.
[for auger phonetic var. algere; cf. Du. aalgeer, elger.]
Eel-spear.
| 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 508 The augure..a sharpe instrument of yron made thinne with many sharpe teeth, and so striken into holes or muddie banks, vvhere they vvill many times catch a great aboundance of Eeles. |