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[syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bode \Bode\, n. [See Abide.]
A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bode \Bode\, imp. & p. p. from Bide.
Abode.
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There that night they bode. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bode \Bode\, p. p. of Bid.
Bid or bidden. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bode
v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn:
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen,
presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell,
prefigure, forecast, predict]