About The Word Bed
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What's The Definition Of Bed?
[n] 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"
[n] a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses" [n] a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away" [n] a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [n] a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [n] (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone" [v] have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [v] put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock" [v] furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bed: bang | be intimate | bonk | bottom | do it | eff | fuck | get it on | get laid | have a go at it | have intercourse | have it away | have it off | have sex | hump | jazz | know | lie with | love | make love | make out | screw | seam | sleep with Related Terms | Find terms related to Bed: a world-without-end bargain | accommodation | accommodations | alliance | alpine garden | aqueduct | arboretum | arroyo | band | base | basement | basin | basis | bassinet | bearing wall | bed and board | bed down | bed in | bed on | bed-davenport | bedding | bedrock | bedstead | belly | belt | berth | billet | board | board and room | bog garden | bond of matrimony | border | botanical garden | bottom | bottom on | bottom side | break | breech | bridebed | bridle | broadcast | brush | build on | bunk | bunk bed | buttocks | camp bed | canal | 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principle | print | printing machine | printing press | put in | put to bed | put up | quarter | quarter berth | queen-size bed | race | radical | recline | reforest | repose | reset | rest | retimber | retire | riprap | river bed | riverway | rock bottom | rock garden | roll in | roll-away bed | roof garden | room | root | rotary press | rotogravure press | rub down | rudiment | runnel | sacrament of matrimony | saddle | scatter seed | seam | seat | seed | seed down | seminate | set | set in | set on | settle | settle to rest | shelf | shelter | shrubbery | sill | single bed | sluice | snug down | sofa | sofa-bed | solid ground | solid rock | sow | sow broadcast | spillbox | spillway | spousehood | sprawl | stable | stage | stamp | step | stereobate | stereotype | story | stratum | stream bed | streamway | stretcher | stylobate | subsistence | substratum | substruction | substructure | sunken garden | superstratum | swash | swash channel | tailrace | take it easy | take life easy | tame | tea garden | tend | terra firma | tester bed | the hay | the sack | thickness | three-quarter bed | tier | topsoil | train | transplant | truck garden | truckle bed | trundle bed | tuck in | turn in | underbelly | underbuilding | undercarriage | undergird | undergirding | underlayer | underlie | underneath | underpinning | underside | understory | understratum | understruction | understructure | union | vegetable garden | victory garden | vinery | vineyard | wadi | water | water carrier | water channel | water furrow | water gap | water gate | watercourse | waterway | waterworks | web | web press | wedded bliss | wedded state | weddedness | wedding knot | wedge | wedlock | wifehood | yoke | zone See Also | article of furniture | asparagus bed | base | bed of flowers | bedframe | bedstead | berth | built in bed | built-in bed | bunk | bunk | bunk bed | camp bed | coal seam | copulate | cot | couch | couple | creek bed | Davy Jones | Davy Jones's locker | deathbed | depression | double bed | flower bed | flowerbed | foot | fornicate | foundation | four-poster | fundament | furnish | furniture | groundwork | hammock | have | hotbed | lake bed | lake bottom | lay | marriage bed | mate | mattress | Murphy bed | natural depression | ocean bottom | ocean floor | ore bed | pair | patch | piece of furniture | place | plank-bed | platform bed | plot | plot of ground | pose | position | provide | put | railroad bed | render | river bottom | riverbed | roadbed | sack | sea bottom | seabed | seedbed | set | sickbed | single bed | sleigh bed | stratum | stratum | streambed | substructure | supply | take | truckle | truckle bed | trundle | trundle bed | turnip bed | twin bed | understructure | water bed Bed In Webster's Dictionary \Bed\, n. [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde,
Icel. be?r, Dan. bed, Sw. b["a]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.
And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. --Byron.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds.
--Shak.
In bed he slept not for my urging it. --Shak.
2. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
George, the eldest son of his second bed.
--Clarendon.
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.
4. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed
of ashes or coals.
5. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as,
the bed of a river.
So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed. --Milton.
6. (Geol.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between
layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
7. (Gun.) See {Gun carriage}, and {Mortar bed}.
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.
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.
10. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
11. (Printing) The flat part of the press, on which the form
is laid.
Note: Bed is much used adjectively or in combination; as, bed
key or bedkey; bed wrench or bedwrench; bedchamber;
bedmaker, etc.
{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.
\Bed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bedding}.] 1. To place in a bed. [Obs.] --Bacon. 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.'' --Shak. \Bed\, v. i. To go to bed; to cohabit. If he be married, and bed with his wife. --Wiseman. |
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