Bode
Bode ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English bodien, Anglo-Saxon bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icelandic boea to announce, Swedish båda to announce, portend. r89. See Bid.]
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 , intransitive verb
To foreshow something; to augur.
Whatever now
The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Bode , noun
1.
An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obsolete]
The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
2.
A bid; an offer. [Obsolete or Dialectal] — Sir W. Scott
Bode , noun
[Anglo-Saxon boda; akin to OFries. boda, Anglo-Saxon bodo, Old High German boto. See Bode, transitive verb]
A messenger; a herald. — Robertson
Bode , noun
[See Abide.]
A stop; a halting; delay. [Obsolete]
Bode , imperfect and past participle
Abode.
There that night they bode.
Bode , past participle
Bid or bidden. [Obsolete] — Chaucer