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bed
I. \ˈbed\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bedd; akin to Old High German betti bed, Old Norse bethr, Gothic badi bed, Latin fodere to dig, Lithuanian besti
1.
a. : a piece of furniture on or in which one may lie down and sleep often including bedstead, legs or supports, spring, mattress, and bedding
b.
(1) : a place of marital sex relations
(2) : marital relationship
< dishonoring her bed with a lover >
c. : any improvised place or arrangement for sleeping
< hikers making their beds under the trees >
d.
(1) : a place of procreation
(2) : marital union
< the eldest son of his second bed — Edward Hyde >
(3) : progeny
e. : situation or fact of being in bed : sleep, sleeping : time for sleeping
< taking a walk before bed >
f. : place of repose : repose
< the bugle calling them from their beds >
g. : a flat sack or mattress filled with some soft material in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed
< a feather bed >
also : a mattress and bedclothes
h. : bedstead
i. : lodging for the night with accommodations for sleeping
< getting a bed at the inn >
j. : a measure of the equipment and services needed in a hospital to care for one hospitalized patient or in a hotel to care for one guest
< a new wing of 200 beds >
2. : a flat or level surface: as
a.
(1) : a plot in a garden or lawn often a little raised above the adjoining ground : the plants grown in such plot; also : hotbed
(2) : an area in a greenhouse or conservatory in which plants are grown
(3) : a cluster or concentration of plants
< a bed of ferns >
b. : the bottom of a watercourse or of any other body of water; especially : an area of sea bottom supporting a heavy growth of a particular kind of organism
< a kelp bed >
< an oyster bed >
c. : the surface of a bowling alley along which the ball is bowled
d. : the surface on which the cloth of a billiard table is fastened
e. : the canvas surface of a trampoline upon which a gymnast performs
3. : a grave as a place of last sleep
< digging out his narrow bed >
4. : support, rest:
a. : the supporting part of a gun carriage
b.
(1) : an extended base : matrix
(2) : a layer of specialized or altered tissue; often : such a layer or zone separating dissimilar structures
< a bed of vigorous granulation tissue is essential for a satisfactory skin graft >
— see vascular bed
c. : a framework or support on or in which a piece of machining or carpentry work rests
d. : the cradle of a ship on the stocks
e. : a foundation for a machine or apparatus
< the bed of an engine >
: the rigid part of a machine serving to support or secure
f. : the superficial earthwork that supports the ballast and track of a railroad
g. : the body, box, or supporting frame of a vehicle (as a wagon, truck, or trailer); sometimes : the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer
h. : the inclined piece of a carpenter's plane against which the plane iron bears
i. : the lower die of a punching machine
j. : the surface on which the printing form is locked on a flatbed press
k. or bed ladder : the lower section of an aerial ladder
l. : a drawer or layer supporting a typewriter in an office desk
m. : the base of a bellows camera usually including the focusing guide rails
5. : a nest of small animals crowded together
< a bed of snakes >
6. : a layer especially if placed with something above
< salad served on a bed of lettuce >
as
a. : a rock stratum; especially : a bedding plane of stratified rock
b.
(1) : a horizontal surface of a brick or stone in position
< in the upper bed >
(2) : a course of stone or brick in a wall
(3) : the place or material in which a block or brick is laid
(4) : the lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile
(5) : bed joint
c. : a layer containing a concentration of paleontological or anthropological evidence (as bones)
d. : filter bed
e. : fire bed
7. : the place where an animal sleeps; especially : a place arranged or covered for a domestic or farm animal to sleep
8.
a. : a mass or heap felt to resemble a bed
< a bed of ashes >
< the judging tent floor was a deep bed of sawdust — Christopher Rand >
b. : a mass of solid catalyst or solid chemical reactant that may be either in a fixed state or in a moving fluidized state
c. : a stack of raw hides or skins spread flat and salted for curing and preserving
9.
a. : a water solution of gum tragacanth used as a couch in the process of marbling book edges
b. : the impression base used by bookbinders in stamping, graining, or embossing covers or materials
II. verb
(bedded ; bedded ; bedding ; beds)
Etymology: Middle English bedden, beddien, from Old English beddian, from bedd bed
transitive verb
1.
a. : to furnish with a bed : accommodate with sleeping quarters
< the innkeeper was unable to bed all the guests >
— sometimes used with down
< a garrison of about seventy, which the captain bedded down in the ground floor — Earle Birney >
b. : to put to bed
< getting the children bedded >
c. : to put (a couple) to bed — used with the implication that sex relations will ensue
d. : to furnish (an animal) with a bed or bedding : settle (an animal) in sleeping quarters
< bedding the mare — Ellen Glasgow >
— often used with down
< bed down the cattle — Andy Adams >
e. : to take to bed for sexual intercourse : have sex relations with
< when he had bedded his wife and … had left her bed — B.A.Williams >
f. : to put to bed with an illness — used mostly in the passive
< bedded for a week with influenza >
2.
a. : embed : place, sink, bury, or cover over securely in an enclosed place or situation
< the tremendous mortar … was bedded in the great timbers of her foredeck — Frank Yerby >
< edges bedded in rabbets >
b. : to plant or arrange in beds : set or cover especially in a bed of soft earth
< bedding roots in mold >
< bed out geraniums >
— often used with up, down, or out
c. : base, establish
d. : to fit (a rifle barrel) to a fore-end
3.
a. : to lay or embed in a layer : lay flat
< bedding bricks in the mortar >
< bedding metal plates together to test them >
b. : to dress the bearing surface of a brick or stone block
c. : to form (soil) into a bed or ridge (as for cotton) by plowing two or more furrows together — often used with up
d. : to spread or strew in a layer
< the floor of the pen being bedded with straw >
e. : to prepare the ground about a tree by leveling and other means so as to lessen the chances of its shattering when felled
f. : to lay, place, or set (something) in a plastic bedding material (as masonry units in mortar or glass in putty)
4. : to place (oysters) in beds for setting
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to find or make sleeping accommodations — often used with down
< bedding down in a sleeping bag — Hamilton Basso >
< halted beside a haystack and told to bed down — E.J.Kahn >
b. : to go to bed with opportunity for sex relations or in order to have sex relations : to have coition
< the couple bedded that night at the inn >
— used with with, down with, up with
< man may bed with slaves, concubines, mistresses — H.M.Parshley >
c. of an animal : to make its bed or lair — often used with down
< the deer bedded down on the slope >
d. : to go to bed to sleep : retire
< accustomed to bed early >
e. : to burrow into a mud bottom
< the side of the lake where the eels bed >
2. : to form a layer usually compact — often used with down
< litter in the hen coop beds down if it is not raked >
3. : to lie or be placed on or as if on a bed in a mechanical operation : lie flat or flush against another part
< countersunk rivets bed well against a flat plate > |