Bel"o*man`cy (?), n. [Gr. ; arrow + a diviner: cf. F. b'elomancie.]

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.

Encyc. Brit.

 

© Webster 1913.

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