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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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... with the sniff with which Stas inhaled the air through his nose, did not bode any good for the Mahdi and considerably quieted Nell as to ...
— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... of no small influence tending to the same end. Johann Elert Bode, another German astronomer, born in 1747 and living to 1826, had propounded a mathematical formula known as Bode's Law, which led those who accepted it to the belief that a planet would be found ...
— Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century - Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World • Various
... they bode that night Till in the morn, that day was bright, And then ceased partly The noise, ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... Thyraeus of the Society of Jesus, Doctor in Theology. His work, published at Cologne in 1598, is a quarto of 352 pages, entitled, 'Loca Infesta; That is, Concerning Places Haunted by Mischievous Spirits of Demons and of the Dead. Thereto is added a Tract on Nocturnal Disturbances, which are wont to bode the deaths of Men.' Thyraeus begins, 'That certain places are haunted by spectres and spirits, is no matter of doubt,' wherein a modern reader cannot confidently ...
— Cock Lane and Common-Sense • Andrew Lang
... varied material, and I now pass abruptly from fresh emerald leaflets to the waxy crystals stewed out of the fat of a monster's head. There has seldom been a controversy so entertaining as that between Dr. Bode (the talented director of the Art Gallery of Berlin) and his opponents, in regard to the age of the wax-bust which he purchased not long ago for L8,000 in Bond Street in the belief that it was the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Science has had its share in the examination of the bust. ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester


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