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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.

6 other Webster entries under this spelling

Bode, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boding.]

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, 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, n.

A messenger; a herald. Robertson.

Bode, n.

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.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for bode; he lists it under augur.

He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.