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scry
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scry  (skr)
intr.v. scried (skrd), scry·ing, scries (skrz)
To see or predict the future by means of a crystal ball.

[Short for descry.]

scry [skraɪ]
vb scries, scrying, scried
(Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) (intr) to divine, esp by crystal gazing
[from descry]

Scry a flock of wild birds; a shouting, clamorous group.
Example: scry of fowls (wild fowl), 1450.
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Verb1.scry - divine by gazing into crystals
read - interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"


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Scryers use liquid or surfaces to enhance their clairvoyant abilities and the more disciplined scryer can use virtually surface for divination.
Scryers use liquid or flattened surfaces to activate their clairvoyant abilities.
You are secret psi-agent Nick Scryer, who has to lose his memory to infiltrate a group of baddies and, of course, all his abilities.
 
 
 
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