Pronunciation : Bode
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo to announce, Sw. b?da to announce, portend. sq. root89. See Bid.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
t. [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boding.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Bode
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.
Syn. -- To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Bode
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Bode
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, v. t.]
Definition : Defn: A messenger; a herald. Robertson.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Bode
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [See Abide.]
Definition : Defn: A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Bode
Part of Speech : imp.
Definition : Defn: Abode. There that night they bode. Tennyson.
& p. p. from Bide.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Bode
Part of Speech : p.
Definition : Defn: of Bid. Bid or bidden. [Obs.] Chaucer.
p.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913