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English Dictionary: boding by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boding
n
  1. a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
    Synonym(s): foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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[86]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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boding \Bod"ing\ (b[omac]d"[icr]ng), a.
      Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- {Bod"ing*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Boding \Bod"ing\, n.
      A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
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