Hypertext Webster Gateway: "boding"
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)
Boding \Bod"ing\ (b[=o]d"[i^]ng), a.
Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- {Bod"ing*ly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Boding \Bod"ing\, n.
A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
boding
n : a feeling of evil to come: "a steadily escalating sense of
foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the
judge would dismiss the case" [syn: {foreboding}, {premonition},
{presentiment}]
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