Găs'tro-măn'cy, n.

n. [Fr. gastromancie; Gr. γαστήρ, belly, and μαντεία, divination; γαστρομαντεύεσθαι, to divine by the belly.] (Antiq.) (a.) A kind of divination, among the ancients, by means of words seeming to be uttered from the stomach. (b.) A species of divination by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures appear by magic art.