Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bode"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bode \Bode\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Boding}.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod
command; akin to Icel. bo?a to announce, Sw. b[*a]da to
announce, portend. [root]89. See {Bid}.]
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to
portend to presage; to foreshow.
A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. --Goldsmith.
Good onset bodes good end. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bode \Bode\, v. i.
To foreshow something; to augur.
Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you.
--Dryden.
Syn: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bode \Bode\, n.
1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.]
The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
--Chaucer.
2. A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] --Sir W. Scott
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bode \Bode\, n. [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG.
boto. See {Bode}, v. t.]
A messenger; a herald. --Robertson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bode \Bode\, n. [See {Abide}.]
A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bode \Bode\, imp. & p. p. from {Bide}.
Abode.
There that night they bode. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bode \Bode\, p. p. of {Bid}.
Bid or bidden. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bode
v : indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {portend},
{auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken},
{foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast},
{predict}]
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