BODE is a 4 letter word that starts with B.

1. \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.
   
   

2. \Bode\, v. i.
   To foreshow something; to augur.
   
         Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you.
                                                  --Dryden.
   
   Syn: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.
   
   

3. \Bode\, n.
   1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.]
   
            The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
                                                  --Chaucer.
   
   2. A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] --Sir W. Scott
   
   

4. \Bode\, n. [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG.
   boto. See {Bode}, v. t.]
   A messenger; a herald. --Robertson.
   
   

5. \Bode\, n. [See {Abide}.]
   A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
   
   

6. \Bode\, imp. & p. p. from {Bide}.
   Abode.
   
         There that night they bode.              --Tennyson.
   
   

7. \Bode\, p. p. of {Bid}.
   Bid or bidden. [Obs.] --Chaucer.