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scries

scries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scry.

Meaning of scry

Verb (1)

scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)

  1. To magically or supernaturally look into or (as an entertainer) predict (the future), using crystal balls or other objects.
    • The fortune teller claimed she could scry [into] the future.
  2. (more broadly) To use magical means to see or look into (something that is happening outside one's sight, e.g. inside a building or far away, or in the distant past, or future, etc).
    • Scrying spells can simply toggle the state of hidden objects to the revealed state, […]2014 April 22, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 149
  3. (obsolete) To descry; to see.
    • […]two ſhepheards curres, had ſcryde
      A rauenous Wolfe amongſt the ſcattered flockes.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 352

Verb (2)

scry (third-person singular simple present scries, present participle scrying, simple past and past participle scried)

  1. (obsolete) To proclaim.

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Questions about scries

What is scries the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scry.

Words near scries in the dictionary

  1. scrid
  2. scriddan
  3. scriddans
  4. scrids
  5. scried
  6. scries
  7. scrieve
  8. scrieve board
  9. scrieve boards
  10. scrieve knife
  11. scrieved

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