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Webster 1913 Edition

Bode

Bode

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Boded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Boding
.]
[OE.
bodien
, AS.
bodian
to announce, tell from
bod
command; akin to Icel.
bo[GREEK]a
to announce, Sw.
båda
to announce, portend. √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.

Bode

,
Verb.
I.
To foreshow something; to augur.
Whatever now
The omen proved, it
boded
well to you.
Dryden.
Syn. – To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.

Bode

,
Noun.
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

Bode

,
Noun.
[AS.
boda
; akin to OFries.
boda
, AS.
bodo
, OHG.
boto
. See
Bode
,
Verb.
T.
]
A messenger; a herald.
Robertson.

Bode

,
Noun.
[See
Abide
.]
A stop; a halting; delay.
[Obs.]

Bode

,
imp.
&
p.
p.
from
Bide
.
Abode.
There that night they
bode
.
Tennyson.

Bode

,
p.
p.
of
Bid
.
Bid or bidden.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bode

BODE

,
Verb.
T.
To portend; to foreshow; to presage; to indicate something future by signs; to be the omen of; most generally applied to things; as, our vices bode evil to the country.

BODE

,
Verb.
I.
To foreshow; to presage.
This bodes well to you.

BODE

,
Noun.
An omen.
1.
A stop.

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