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Bode
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.] The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer.
2. A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] Sir W. Scott
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 7
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A messenger; a herald. Robertson.
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
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. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 5 of 7
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.
Synonyms: forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.
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Part of speech: participle (p.)
Abode. There that night they bode. Tennyson.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 7 of 7
Part of speech: participle (p.)
of Bid. Bid or bidden. [Obs.] Chaucer.