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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 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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