Bed ¹

Definition: 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.

Bed ²

Definition: (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.

Bed ³

Definition: A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.

Bed ⁴

Definition: A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

Bed ⁵

Definition: The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.

Bed ⁶

Definition: A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

Bed ⁷

Definition: See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

Bed ⁸

Definition: The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

Bed ⁹

Definition: A course of stone or brick in a wall.

Bed ¹⁰

Definition: The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

Bed ¹¹

Definition: The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.

Bed ¹²

Definition: 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.

Bed ¹³

Definition: The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

Bed ¹⁴

Definition: The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.

Bed ¹⁵

Definition: To place in a bed.

Bed ¹⁶

Definition: To furnish with a bed or bedding.

Bed ¹⁷

Definition: 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.

Bed ¹⁸

Definition: 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.

Bed ¹⁹

Definition: To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

Bed ²⁰

Definition: To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.

Bed ²¹

Definition: To go to bed; to cohabit.

bed ²²

Definition: 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"

bed ²³

Definition: a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses"

bed ²⁴

Definition: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away"

bed ²⁵

Definition: 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.

bed ²⁶

Definition: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"

bed ²⁷

Definition: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds"

bed ²⁸

Definition: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"

bed ²⁹

Definition: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone"

bed ³⁰

Definition: go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn"

bed ³¹

Definition: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

bed ³²

Definition: put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o''clock"

bed ³³

Definition: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil

bed ³⁴

Definition: furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"