To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
simple past tense of bide
To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
A stop; a halting; delay.
An omen; a foreshadowing.
A herald; a messenger.
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.