Crossword clues for boding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Boding \Bod"ing\ (b[=o]d"[i^]ng), a. Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- Bod"ing*ly, adv.
Boding \Bod"ing\, n. A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
Wiktionary
portending, ominous n. An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent. v
(present participle of bode English)
WordNet
n. a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" [syn: foreboding, premonition, presentiment]
Usage examples of "boding".
Black draperies, likewise, in the gloomy room, shut out from our view the moon, the lurid stars, and the peopleless streets--but the boding and the memory of Evil, they would not be so excluded.
The ancient trepanning of skulls which so puzzled archeologists and anthropologists was directed at getting into the brain to scratch the announcing pruritus, the Boding Itch.
High up on the slope he found the four burros, sleek and fat and lazy, and, when he drove them, the first time for months, he had strange, dark, boding appreciation of the brevity of life.
All that morning the recollection of the night before hung over Tom Chist like a great cloud of boding trouble.
Thuswise we voyaged Lake Bennett, Tagish, then Windy Arm, Sinister, savage and baleful, boding us hate and harm.
Fortunately for this delusive hopefulness there was no weird and boding Cassandra to pierce the veil of the future for us, and reveal the length and the ghastly horror of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, through which we must pass for hundreds of sad days, stretching out into long months of suffering and death.
Half my nights, for months, Claud, have been made sleepless by the bodings and fears of the evil day, which, as things were going, I felt must eventually come.
It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or leaf.
They had been steeped in troubled bodings all this time—their faces showed it.
They had been steeped in troubled bodings all this time—their faces showed it.
Elwood's Bodings, on account of the connection of her Husband and Son with Gaut and his Daughter.