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4 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]: Boding \Bod"ing\ (b[=o]d"[i^]ng), a. Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- {Bod"ing*ly}, adv From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Boding \Bod"ing\, n. A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: boding n : a feeling of evil to come: "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" [syn: {foreboding}, {premonition}, {presentiment}]
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