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 bode /ˈbod/
 (vt.)(vi.)預示;(vbl.)忍耐

 Bode, n.  A messenger; a herald.

 Bode, n.  A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]

 Bode, imp. & p. p. from Bide. Abode.
    There that night they bode.   --Tennyson.

 Bode, p. p. of Bid. Bid or bidden. [Obs.]
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 Bode v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.   --Goldsmith.
    Good onset bodes good end.   --Spenser.

 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.

 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.]

 bode
      v : indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: portend,
           auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken,
           foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast,
           predict]