Usually means: Divination using one's own arms.
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  2. armomancy: Dictionary.com
  3. armomancy: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  4. armomancy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  5. armomancy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (armomancy)

noun:  Divination using the shoulder blade of an animal. It was taken from a dead animal and thrown into a fire, and the cracks formed in the bone were then interpreted.
noun:  Divination through inspecting one's shoulders. In ancient times, this inspection was to see whether a human was a suitable sacrifice to the gods.

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