bode

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To be an omen of: heavy seas that boded trouble for small craft.
2. v. Archaic To predict; foretell.
3. v. To be an omen; portend: The peace accord bodes well for the city under siege.
4. v. A past tense of bide.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A messenger; a herald; one who announces or conveys a message.
2. To announce; proclaim; preach.
3. To decree; command; bid.
4. To announce beforehand; prognosticate; predict; presage.
5. To portend; augur; be an omen or indication of; betoken: with a non-personal subject.
6. To forebode or have a presentiment of (ill, or coming disaster).
7. Synonyms To augur, betoken, portend.
8. To promise; portend: with well or ill: as, this bodes well for your success.
9. To presage something evil; be of evil omen.
10. n. A command; an order.
11. n. An announcement; a message.
12. n. Omen; premonition; augury.
13. n. A foreboding; presentiment.
14. n. A bid; the price offered by a buyer or asked by a seller.
15. To bid for; make an offer for; buy.
16. Preterit and past participle of bide.
17. n. A stop; delay.
18. Bidden; commanded.

Wiktionary

1. v. Simple past of bide.
2. v. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
3. v. intransitive To foreshow something; to augur.
4. n. An omen; a foreshadowing.
5. n. A bid; an offer. A messenger; a herald.
6. n. A stop; a halting; delay.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
2. v. To foreshow something; to augur.
3. n. obsolete An omen; a foreshadowing.
4. n. Obs. or Dial. A bid; an offer.
5. n. A messenger; a herald.
6. n. obsolete A stop; a halting; delay.
7. Abode.
8. obsolete Bid or bidden.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. indicate by signs