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The Meaning of bed
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(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.
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(n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
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(n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
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(n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
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(n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
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(n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
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(n.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
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(n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
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(n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
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(n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
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(n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
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(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.
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(n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
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(n.) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
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(v. t.) To place in a bed.
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(v. t.) To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
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(v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
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(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.
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(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.
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(v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
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(v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
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(v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit.
Synonyms
layer
,
seam
,
bottom
,
fanny
,
tail
,
seat
,
butt
,
bottom of the inning
,
rear end
,
can
,
merchantman
,
nates
,
fundament
,
freighter
,
bottomland
,
posterior
,
buttocks
,
behind
,
stern
,
backside
,
bum
,
underside
,
merchant ship
,
buns
,
hindquarters
,
tail end
,
derriere
,
tooshie
,
hind end
,
undersurface
,
rump
,
keister
,
ass
,
prat
,
arse
,
rear
,
tush
,
wrinkle
,
line
,
crinkle
,
crease
,
furrow
,
level
,
stratum
,
jazz
,
go to bed
,
have sex
,
do it
,
fuck
,
hump
,
bang
,
screw
,
have intercourse
,
hit the hay
,
sleep together
,
crawl in
,
love
,
hit the sack
,
know
,
roll in the hay
,
get it on
,
lie with
,
have it away
,
be intimate
,
eff
,
go to sleep
,
sack out
,
have a go at it
,
get laid
,
turn in
,
make out
,
have it off
,
kip down
,
bonk
,
sleep with
,
retire
,
make love
,
spang
,
discern
,
acknowledge
,
recognise
,
deal
,
whop
,
grapple
,
get along
,
bop
,
distinguish
,
bash
,
do
,
cheat
,
sock
,
cut
,
pick out
,
live
,
recognize
,
spot
,
hunch over
,
slam
,
chicane
,
manage
,
jockey
,
tell apart
,
complete
,
cognise
,
neck
,
whap
,
fill out
,
fill in
,
drive in
,
enjoy
,
contend
,
hunch forward
,
issue
,
make do
,
get by
,
write out
,
cope
,
chouse
,
experience
,
come
,
shaft
,
fare
,
cognize
,
hunch
,
adjourn
,
hand over
,
draw back
,
deliver
,
put on
,
retreat
,
fork over
,
fork up
,
strike out
,
put out
,
move back
,
pull away
,
render
,
recede
,
fork out
,
withdraw
,
pull back
,
supply
,
provide
,
furnish
Rhymes
abed
,
aforesaid
,
ahead
,
airhead
,
armstead
,
arrowhead
,
bankhead
,
beachhead
,
bedspread
,
behead
,
biomed
,
bled
,
blockhead
,
bloodshed
,
bobsled
,
bread
,
bred
,
bridgehead
,
broadhead
,
brodhead
,
bulkhead
,
bullhead
,
calfed
,
coed
,
copperhead
,
cornbread
,
dead
,
deadhead
,
deathbed
,
dragonhead
,
dread
,
dred
,
dredd
,
drumhead
,
ed
,
egghead
,
embed
,
farmstead
,
featherbed
,
fed
,
figurehead
,
flatbed
,
flathead
,
fled
,
fred
,
freda
,
ged
,
gingerbread
,
godhead
,
hampstead
,
hardhead
,
head
,
hollingshead
,
homestead
,
horsehead
,
hotbed
,
imbed
,
inbred
,
infrared
,
instead
,
interbred
,
jed
,
lead
,
led
,
letterhead
,
loggerhead
,
marblehead
,
masthead
,
med
,
misled
,
misread
,
ned
,
nedd
,
newlywed
,
numed
,
overfed
,
overhead
,
pled
,
purebred
,
read
,
reade
,
red
,
redd
,
redhead
,
retread
,
riverbed
,
riverhead
,
roundhead
,
said
,
sayed
,
schwed
,
seabed
,
sffed
,
shead
,
shed
,
shedd
,
shred
,
skinhead
,
sled
,
sledd
,
spearhead
,
sped
,
spread
,
stead
,
steelhead
,
sudafed
,
swed
,
szwed
,
ted
,
thickhead
,
thoroughbred
,
thread
,
trailhead
,
tread
,
unread
,
unsaid
,
unted
,
unwed
,
warhead
,
watershed
,
wed
,
wedd
,
wehde
,
wellhead
,
whitehead
,
widespread
,
woodshed
,
zed