Definition of "bode"

bode¹

/bəʊd/

verb
third-person singular simple present bodes, present participle boding, simple past and past participle boded
1. (transitive, intransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
  Quotations
  O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound,And crown what I profess with kind eventIf I speak true; if hollowly invertWhat best is boded me to mischief: I,Beyond all limit of what else i' th' world,Do love, prize, honour you.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
2. (intransitive, followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
  Quotations
  Whatever now / The omen prove, it boded well to you.
  1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, (please specify the page number)
noun
plural bodes
1. An omen; a foreshadowing.
  Quotations
  The oule eek, that of dethe the bode bringeth.
  c. 1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Fowles

bode²

/bəʊd/

noun
plural bodes
1. (obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.
  Quotations
  What bode ye shall to your lord bear?
  1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.

bode³

/bəʊd/

noun
plural bodes
1. A herald; a messenger.
  Quotations
  [T]he fame of the Duke's coming was sent abroad by the bodes or messengers, despatched to prepare the towns through which he was to pass for an arrival sooner than expected, […]
  1848, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter III, in Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], book II (Lanfranc the Scholar), page 138

bode⁴

/bəʊd/

noun
plural bodes
1. A stop; a halting; delay.

bode⁵

/bəʊd/

verb
1. simple past of bide