. "of adverse, unfavorable, evil omen; ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, portentous ; so, volucres, birds of illomen , i. e. owls : puppis, the fatal ship ." . "of adverse, unfavorable, evil omen; ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, portentous ; so, volucres, birds of illomen , i. e. owls : puppis, the fatal ship ." . .