A-rŭs'pex, n.

noun

n. [Lat. aruspex, haruspex, inspector of entrails, interpreter of sacrifices among the Etruscans, and from them introduced among the Romans, prob. from haruga, haruviga, harriz or arria, a ram for offering, and spicere, specere, to look.] A soothsayer; an aruspice. Dryden.