Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.