ABODE

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

of Abide.

2.
n.

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

3.
n.

Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. He waxeth at your abode here. Fielding.

4.
n.

Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. Wordsworth.

5.
n.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

6.
v.

To bode; to foreshow. [Obs.] Shak.

7.
v.

To be ominous. [Obs.] Dryden.

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