Portends

1. To give a warning, omen or anticipatory indication of
   
   
2. To signify, indicate or denote

Last night the very gods showed me a vision -
I fast and prayed for their intelligence - thus:
I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged
From the spongy south to this part of the west,
There vanished in the sunbeams; which portends,
Unless my sins abuse my divination,
Success to th' Roman host.

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry,
Portends strange things, old women say;