5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bed \Bed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bedding}.] 1. To place in a bed. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. [1913 Webster] I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To furnish with a bed or bedding. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. [1913 Webster] 5. 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. [1913 Webster] Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] 6. (Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed. [1913 Webster] 7. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. "Bedded hair." --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bedded \Bed"ded\, a. Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: bed n 1: a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" 2: a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses" 3: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: {bottom}] 4: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone" 5: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [syn: {seam}] 6: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: {layer}] 7: the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. 8: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away" v 1: furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals" 2: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil 3: put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock" 4: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: {roll in the hay}, {love}, {make out}, {make love}, {sleep with}, {get laid}, {have sex}, {know}, {do it}, {be intimate}, {have intercourse}, {have it away}, {have it off}, {screw}, {fuck}, {jazz}, {eff}, {hump}, {lie with}, {have a go at it}, {bang}, {get it on}, {bonk}] 5: go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn" [syn: {go to bed}, {turn in}, {crawl in}, {kip down}, {hit the hay}, {hit the sack}, {sack out}, {go to sleep}, {retire}] [ant: {get up}, {get up}] [also: {bedding}, {bedded}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: bedded adj 1: deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock" [syn: {stratified}] [ant: {unstratified}] 2: having a bed or beds as specified [ant: {bedless}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: bedded See {bed}
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