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Bode   /boʊd/   Listen
noun
Bode  n.  
1.
An omen; a foreshadowing. (Obs.) "The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth."
2.
A bid; an offer. (Obs. or Dial.)


Bode  n.  A messenger; a herald.


Bode  n.  A stop; a halting; delay. (Obs.)


verb
Bode  v. t.  (past & past part. boded; pres. part. boding)  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." "Good onset bodes good end."


Bode  v. i.  To foreshow something; to augur. "Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you."
Synonyms: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.


Bode  past, past part.  (past & past part. from Bide) Abode. "There that night they bode."


Bode  past part.  Bid or bidden. (Obs.)





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... this work, however, who had never heard of the Danish King and bode not of what the maritime history of England might teach. To them the arrival of the first trial train on the banks of the Dysynni was more pertinently an occasion for "celebration," and sixty pounds being quickly ...
— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine
... the woman brought the tortillas and frijoles and some kind of fish stewed in oil with the hottest of hot peppers, Janice merely played with the food. Because of the baleful glance of the man's yellow eyes her appetite was gone. Maria too watched the guests in a silence that seemed to bode evil. ...
— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long
... may'st thou gaze thy fill. My fears are fled, E'en while I know thy musings bode me ill. Thy child is tenderer ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... wood yesterday and brought home two dollars," Sheba said. "He made me take it. He said he wanted to pay his 'bode.'" ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... lonesome dismal-looking place, Master Rupert. It doesn't seem to bode good. Of course you know what you're come for, sir; but I don't like the look ...
— The Cornet of Horse - A Tale of Marlborough's Wars • G. A. Henty


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