Also 8 bell-. [f. Gr. βέλος a dart + μαντεία divination: see -MANCY.] Divination by means of arrows.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 272. Alike way of Belomancy or Divination by Arrowes hath beene in request with Scythians, Alanes, Germans.
1883. Sat. Rev., 841/2. These … divining arrows or rods or the knotched [sic] sticks of belomancy.
