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.
To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.
An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.] The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer.
A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] Sir W. Scott
A messenger; a herald. Robertson.
A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
Abode. There that night they bode. Tennyson.
of Bid. Bid or bidden. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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