'BED' definitions:

Definition of 'Bed'

From: GCIDE
  • Bed \Bed\, n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel. be?r, Dan. bed, Sw. b[aum]dd, Goth. badi, OHG. betti, G. bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain origin.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • In bed he slept not for my urging it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage. [1913 Webster]
  • George, the eldest son of his second bed. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. "Beds of hyacinth and roses." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river. [1913 Webster]
  • So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Geol.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Gun.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Masonry) (a) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds. (b) A course of stone or brick in a wall. (c) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid. (d) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. (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. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. (Printing) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Bed is much used adjectively or in combination; as, bed key or bedkey; bed wrench or bedwrench; bedchamber; bedmaker, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Bed of justice (French Hist.), the throne (F. lit bed) occupied by the king when sitting in one of his parliaments (judicial courts); hence, a session of a refractory parliament, at which the king was present for the purpose of causing his decrees to be registered.
  • To be brought to bed, to be delivered of a child; -- often followed by of; as, to be brought to bed of a son.
  • To make a bed, to prepare a bed; to arrange or put in order a bed and its bedding.
  • From bed and board (Law), a phrase applied to a separation by partial divorce of man and wife, without dissolving the bonds of matrimony. If such a divorce (now commonly called a judicial separation) be granted at the instance of the wife, she may have alimony. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bed'

From: GCIDE
  • Bed \Bed\, v. i. To go to bed; to cohabit. [1913 Webster]
  • If he be married, and bed with his wife. --Wiseman. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bed'

From: 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]

Definition of 'bed'

From: Easton
  • Bed (Heb. mittah), for rest at night (Ex. 8:3; 1 Sam. 19:13, 15, 16, etc.); during sickness (Gen. 47:31; 48:2; 49:33, etc.); as a sofa for rest (1 Sam. 28:23; Amos 3:12). Another Hebrew word (er'es) so rendered denotes a canopied bed, or a bed with curtains (Deut. 3:11; Ps. 132:3), for sickness (Ps. 6:6; 41:3).
  • In the New Testament it denotes sometimes a litter with a coverlet (Matt. 9:2, 6; Luke 5:18; Acts 5:15).
  • The Jewish bedstead was frequently merely the divan or platform along the sides of the house, sometimes a very slight portable frame, sometimes only a mat or one or more quilts. The only material for bed-clothes is mentioned in 1 Sam. 19:13. Sleeping in the open air was not uncommon, the sleeper wrapping himself in his outer garment (Ex. 22:26,27; Deut. 24:12,13).

Synonyms of 'bed'

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Acronyms for 'bed'

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