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Bed
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
(2):
(n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
(3):
(n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
(4):
(n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
(5):
(v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
(6):
(n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
(7):
(v. t.) 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.
(8):
(n.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
(9):
(v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
(10):
(v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
(11):
(v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit.
(12):
(n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
(13):
(n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
(14):
(n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
(15):
(n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
(16):
(n.) 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.
(17):
(v. t.) 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.
(18):
(v. t.) To place in a bed.
(19):
(v. t.) To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
(20):
(n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
(21):
(n.) 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.
(22):
(n.) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bed'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/bed.html. 1828.
