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Webster 1913 Edition
Alectryomancy
A-lec′try-o-manˊcy
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] cock +
-mancy
.] Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten.
Amer. Cyc.
Webster 1828 Edition
Alectryomancy
ALECTRYOM'ANCY
,Noun.
An ancient practice of foretelling events by means of a cock. The twenty four letters were laid on the ground, and a grain of corn on each; a cock was then permitted to pick up the grains, and the letters under the grains selected, being formed into words, were supposed to foretell the event desired.