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.

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.

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

Bode \Bode\, n. [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG.
   boto. See {Bode}, v. t.]
   A messenger; a herald. --Robertson.

Bode \Bode\, n. [See {Abide}.]
   A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]

Bode \Bode\, imp. & p. p. from {Bide}.
   Abode.

         There that night they bode.              --Tennyson.

Bode \Bode\, p. p. of {Bid}.
   Bid or bidden. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Source : WordNet®

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