beddedadj.
/ˈbɛdɪd/ 1. Put to bed, having gone to bed; lying in bed.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [adjective] > in bed, lying down,or put to bed
bedded1393
couching1816
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [adjective] > of a person: with whom one has had sex
bedded1625
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xviii. 197 Vuel-cloþed..Baddeliche beddyd.
1625 Boys in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1871) II. Ps. xlv. 9 Spiritually the wedded and bedded wife to the king of glory.
1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 292 All silent was the bedded house.
1840 T. C. Haliburton Let. Bag Great Western (U.K. ed.) i. 5 Bedded all day... Rose in the Evening.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha iii. 40 Bedded soft in moss and rushes.
2. Lying at rest in their lair, or bed; cf. bed v. 14.
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the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > lying at rest in lair
bedded1653
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 185 Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fish in banks outwrest. View more context for this quotation
3. Growing in a bed.
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the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > cultivated or planted > growing in pot or garden
potteda1678
bedded1818
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [adjective] > growing in bed
bedded1818
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 14 Dost sit, and hearken The dreary melody of bedded reeds.
4. Deeply or firmly fixed; embedded.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in a surrounding mass
bedded1641
embedded1818
1641 D. Cawdrey Three Serm. 50 The spawne and seed of corruption, which lies bedded in our hearts.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby ii. xv. 76 Yon earth-bedded jetting stone.
5. Laid or strewn in a smooth layer.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [adjective] > laid in a layer
bedded1604
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 112 Your bedded haire like life..Start vp and stand an end. View more context for this quotation
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iii. 443 Light-edged shadows on the bedded sand.
6. Existing in beds or layers; stratified in beds.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [adjective]
well-bedded1425
flaked1577
tabulated1794
bedded1830
layered1852
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1833) III. 65 A similar compact variety of the limestone occurs..often very thick bedded.
1858 A. Geikie Story of Boulder xii. 247 The bedded or contemporaneous trap-rocks.
Compounds
Having a bed of a particular type, as soft-bedded, etc.
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1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 450/2 Not sufficiently honoured, nourished, soft-bedded.
1862 W. Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. II. 100 Above the gravel-bedded rill.
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