Bode, n. [See Abide.] 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.] Chaucer.

Bode"ful (&?;), a. Portentous; ominous. Carlyle.