BODE

v. n. p.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

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

3.
n.

An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.] The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer.

4.
n.

A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] Sir W. Scott

5.
n.

A messenger; a herald. Robertson.

6.
n.

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

7.
p.

Abode. There that night they bode. Tennyson.

8.
p.

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


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