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  9  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  A  raven  that  bodes  nothing  but  mischief.  --Goldsmith. 
 
  Good  onset  bodes  good  end  --Spenser. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bode  \Bode\,  v.  i. 
  To  foreshow  something  to  augur. 
 
  Whatever  now  The  omen  proved,  it  boded  well  to  you 
  --Dryden. 
 
  Syn:  To  forebode;  foreshadow;  augur;  betoken. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bode  \Bode\,  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 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bode  \Bode\,  n.  [AS.  boda;  akin  to  OFries  boda,  AS  bodo,  OHG. 
  boto.  See  {Bode},  v.  t.] 
  A  messenger;  a  herald.  --Robertson. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bode  \Bode\,  n.  [See  {Abide}.] 
  A  stop;  a  halting;  delay.  [Obs.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bode  \Bode\,  imp.  &  p.  p.  from  {Bide}. 
  Abode. 
 
  There  that  night  they  bode.  --Tennyson. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bode  \Bode\,  p.  p.  of  {Bid}. 
  Bid  or  bidden.  [Obs.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  bode 
  v  :  indicate  by  signs;  "These  signs  bode  bad  news"  [syn:  {portend}, 
  {auspicate},  {prognosticate},  {omen},  {presage},  {betoken}, 
  {foreshadow},  {augur},  {foretell},  {prefigure},  {forecast}, 
  {predict}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  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




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