Found 2 items, similar to Bode.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bode
bode
v : indicate by signs;
“These signs bode bad news” [syn:
portend,
auspicate,
prognosticate,
omen,
presage,
betoken,
foreshadow,
augur,
foretell,
prefigure,
forecast,
predict]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bode
Bode
\Bode\, n. [See
Abide.]
A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
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Bode
\Bode\, imp. & p. p. from
Bide.
Abode.
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There that night they bode. --Tennyson.
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Bode
\Bode\, p. p. of
Bid.
Bid or bidden. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Bode
\Bode\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Boded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Boding.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod
command; akin to Icel. bo?a to announce, Sw. b[*a]da to
announce, portend. [root]89. See
Bid.]
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to
portend to presage; to foreshow.
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A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. --Goldsmith.
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Good onset bodes good end. --Spenser.
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Bode
\Bode\, v. i.
To foreshow something; to augur.
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Whatever now
The omen proved, it boded well to you. --Dryden.
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Syn: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.
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Bode
\Bode\, n.
1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.]
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The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
--Chaucer.
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2. A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] --Sir W. Scott
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Bode
\Bode\, n. [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG.
boto. See
Bode, v. t.]
A messenger; a herald. --Robertson.
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