Category:Bode

Bode, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boding.] Etym: [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo to announce, Sw. båda to announce, portend. sq. root89. See Bid.]

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.

Bode Bode, v. i.

Defn: To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.

Syn. -- To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.

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

Bode Bode, n. Etym: [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, v. t.]

Defn: A messenger; a herald. Robertson.

Bode Bode, n. Etym: [See Abide.]

Defn: A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]

Bode Bode, imp. & p. p. from Bide.

Defn: Abode. There that night they bode. Tennyson.

Bode Bode, p. p.

Defn: of Bid. Bid or bidden. [Obs.] Chaucer.