Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Foretoken \Fore"to`ken\, n. [AS. foret[=a]cen. See {Token}.]
   Prognostic; previous omen. --Sir P. Sidney.

Foretoken \Fore*to"ken\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foretokened}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Foretokening}.] [AS. foret[=a]cnian; fore +
   t[=a]cnian.]
   To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.

         Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
                                                  --Daniel.

Source : WordNet®

foretoken
     n : an event that is experienced as indicating important things
         to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from
         God" [syn: {augury}, {sign}, {preindication}]