meaning of bed
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.
2. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
3. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
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.
6. A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
7. See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
8. The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
9. A course of stone or brick in a wall.
10. The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
11. The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
12. 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.
13. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
14. The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
15. To place in a bed.
16. To make partaker of ones bed; to cohabit with.
17. To furnish with a bed or bedding.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
21. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
22. To go to bed; to cohabit.
23. The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.
24. A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching.
25. A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.
26. Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.
27. 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
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