bodel (bod)

[In mod. E. archaic, early ME. bode, noun of agent from the same verb.] A mes senger; a herald; one who announces or conveys a me age. bodel (bod), v.; pret. and pp. boded, ppr. bod [ see bode1, n., and cf. bode2, n. Hence forebode, q. v.] I. trans. 11. To announce; proclaim; preach.-21. To decree; command; bid.-3. To announce beforehand; prognosticate; predict; presage. [Archaic.] Prophet of plagues, for ever boding ill. Pope, Iliad, i. 132. IMG:content-2266.png:[blocks in formation] 3t. Omen; premonition; augury. If no fate Have an unlucky bode. Shirley, Love in a Maze, v. 5. 4t. A foreboding; presentiment.-5. A bid; the price offered by a buyer or asked by a seller. [Scotch.] Ye should never tak' a fish-wife's first bode . Scott , Antiquary, xxxix. bode2 (bōd), v. t.; pret. bode, pp. boden, ppr. bod ing. [ bode3 (bod). Preterit and past participle of bide. bode4+ (bod), n. [ Withouten bode his heste she obeyed. Chaucer, Anelida and Arc., 1. 119. bodest, bodent, pp. [ME. forms of the pp. of manded. beden, bid, command: see bid.] Bidden; com bodeful (bōd'ful), a. [ Uttering the dismal bodeful sounds of death. J. Baillie . Poor Weber almost swooned at the sound of these cracked voices, with their bodeful raven-note. Carlyle, French Rev., I. iii. 8. Lady Macbeth hears not so much the voice of the bode ful bird as of her own premeditated murder, and we are thus made her shuddering accomplices before the fact. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 186. bodega (bộ do gã), n. [Sp., A wine bodega near the Grand Theatre caught fire. New York Herald .