bode

10 definitions found

bode - 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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  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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  Bode \Bode\, n. [See Abide.]
     A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
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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\, imp. & p. p. from Bide.
     Abode.
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           There that night they bode.              --Tennyson.
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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\, p. p. of Bid.
     Bid or bidden. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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bode - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

bode - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Bode, IA (city, FIPS 7210)
    Location: 42.86810 N, 94.28642 W
    Population (1990): 335 (168 housing units)
    Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 50519

bode - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "bode":
     apprehend, augur, betoken, croak, forebode, foreshadow, foreshow,
     foretoken, forewarn, have a premonition, have a presentiment,
     look black, lower, menace, omen, portend, preapprehend, presage,
     promise, threaten, warn