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Bed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bedding.]
1. To place in a bed. [Obs.]
2. To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. --Shak.
3. To furnish with a bed or bedding.
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.
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.
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. --Wordsworth.
6. Masonry To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
7. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. “Bedded hair.”
Bed·ded a. Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.
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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]
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]