*bode*

v. t. To bode; to foreshow. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be ominous. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. abad, abood, fr. abiden to abide. See Abide. For the change of vowel, cf. abode, imp. of abide. ] 1. Act of waiting; delay. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And with her fled away without abode. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. [ 1913 Webster ]

He waxeth at your abode here. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bode, v. t. ] An omen. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A foreboding; an omen. [ Obs. ] “Abodements must not now affright us.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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&unr_;a to announce, Sw. båda to announce, portend. √89. See Bid. ] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. [ 1913 Webster ]

A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good onset bodes good end. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To foreshow something; to augur. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatever now
The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bid; an offer. [ Obs. or Dial. ] Sir W. Scott [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, v. t. ] A messenger; a herald. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Abide. ] A stop; a halting; delay. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. from Bide. Abode. [ 1913 Webster ]

There that night they bode. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Bid. Bid or bidden. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Portentous; ominous. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An omen; a prognostic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Forbid. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To foretell; to presage; to augur. [ 1913 Webster ]

If I forebode aright. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Prognostication; presage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding. ] [ AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t. ] 1. To foretell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who forebodes. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Misbede. [ 1913 Webster ]