bed

1. Bed
   (Masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
2. Bed
   A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
3. Bed
   A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. "Beds of hyacinth and roses."
4. Bed
   An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. "And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed .", "I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds .", "In bed he slept not for my urging it."
5. Bed
   (Gun) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
6. Bed
   The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river. "So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed ."
7. Bed
   (Printing) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
8. Bed
   (Mech) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.
9. Bed
   (Masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
10. Bed
    (Masonry) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
11. Bed
    The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
12. Bed
    (Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
13. Bed
    To furnish with a bed or bedding.
14. Bed
    To go to bed; to cohabit. "If he be married, and bed with his wife."
15. Bed
    To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. "Bedded hair."
16. Bed
    To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. "Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded ."
17. Bed
    To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. "I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her."
18. Bed
    To place in a bed.
19. Bed
    To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
20. Bed
    Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage. "George, the eldest son of his second bed ."

1. (n) bed
   That upon or within which one reposes or sleeps. A large flat bag filled with feathers, down, hair, straw, or the like; a mattress.
2. (n) bed
   Hence By extension, the resting-place of an animal.
3. (n) bed
   Any sleeping-place; a lodging; accommodation for the night.
4. (n) bed
   Matrimonial connection; conjugal union; matrimonial rights and duties.
5. (n) bed
   Offspring; progeny.
6. (n) bed
   Anything resembling, or assumed to resemble, a bed in form or position. A plat or piece of ground in a garden in which plants, especially flowers, are grown, usually raised a little above the adjoining ground.
7. (n) bed
   The bottom of a river or other stream, or of any body of water.
8. (n) bed
   A layer; a stratum; an extended mass of anything, whether upon the earth or within it: as, a bed of sulphur; a bed of sand or clay. In geology a bed is a layer of rock; a portion of a rock-mass which has so much homogeneity, and is so separated from the rock which lies over and under it, that it has a character of its own. This distinctness of character may be given by peculiarities of composition, texture, or color, or simply by a facility of separation from the associated beds. Thus, there may be a bed of marble intercalated in a mass of shale; or there may be several beds of marble associated together, each bed being individualized by peculiarities of texture or color. In the latter case there would ordinarily be a distinct break or solution of continuity between the different beds, so that when quarried they would separate from each other without difficulty along the plane of contact. The Latin word stratum is commonly employed in geological writings, and is almost the exact equivalent of bed. Bed, as applied to mineral deposits, implies ordinarily that the masses of ore thus characterized lie flat, and have more or less of the character of sedimentary deposits, in distinction from those of true veins, or lodes.
9. (n) bed
   Anything resembling a bed in function; that on which anything lies, or in which anything is embedded. Particularly— In building: Either of the horizontal surfaces of a building-stone in position. The surfaces are distinguished as the upper and the lower bed. The under surface of a brick, shingle, slate, or tile in position.
10. (n) bed
    A flock or number of animals, as of wild fowl on the water, closely packed together.
11. (n) bed
    A division of the ground in the game of hop-scotch, also called locally the game of “beds.”
12. bed
    To place in or as in a bed.
13. bed
    To go to bed with; make partaker of one's bed.
14. bed
    To provide a bed for; furnish with accommodations for sleeping.
15. bed
    To put to bed; specifically, to put (a couple) to bed together, as was formerly the custom at weddings.
16. bed
    To make a bed of, or plant in beds, as a mass of flowering plants or foliage-plants; also, to transplant into a bed or beds, as from pots or a hothouse: often with out.
17. bed
    To embed; fix or set in a permanent position; furnish with a bed: as, to bed a stone.
18. bed
    To lay in a stratum; stratify; lay in order or fiat.
19. bed
    To make a bed for, as a horse: commonly used with down.
20. bed
    To go to bed; retire to sleep: by extension applied to animals.
21. bed
    To cohabit; use the same bed; sleep together.
22. bed
    To rest as in or on a bed: with on.
23. bed
    To flock closely together, as wild fowl on the surface of the water.
24. bed
    To sleep; pass the night, as game in cover.
25. bed
    An occasional Middle English preterit of bid.
26. (n) bed
    The curved piece of wood which forms the main section of the platform carriage-part of a vehicle.

1. (n) Bed
   bed a couch or place to sleep on: a plot in a garden: a place in which anything rests, in carpentry, architecture, &c.: conjugal union, the marriage-bed, matrimonial rights and duties: the channel of a river:
2. (v.t) Bed
   to place in bed, as a couple after a wedding: to provide a bed, or to make a bed, for: to sow or plant: to lay in layers
3. (v.i) Bed
   to cohabit or use the same bed with another:—pr.p. bed′ding; pa.p. bed′ded
4. (n) Bed
   bed (geol.) a layer or stratum

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