a kind of divination, or method of foretelling future events by means of mice.

Some authors hold myomancy to be one of the most ancient kinds of divination; and think it is on this account that Isaiah, lxvi. 17, reckons mice among the abominable things of the Idolaters. But, beside that, it is not certain that the Hebrew word used by the Myomancy the prophet signifies a mouse; it is evident it is not the divination by that animal, be it what it will, that is spoken of, but the eating it.