From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bed \Bed\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bedding \Bed"ding\, noun [AS. bedding, beding. See {Bed}.]
1. A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.
2. (Geol.) The state or position of beds and layers.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: 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"
2: a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses"
3: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: {bottom}]
4: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock); "they found a bed of standstone"
5: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [syn: {seam}]
6: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: {layer}]
7: 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.
8: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; "the track bed had washed away"
verb
1: furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"
2: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
3: put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
4: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: {roll in the hay}, {love}, {make out}, {make love}, {sleep with}, {get laid}, {have sex}, {know}, {do it}, {be intimate}, {have intercourse}, {have it away}, {have it off}, {screw}, {fuck}, {jazz}, {eff}, {hump}, {lie with}, {have a go at it}, {bang}, {get it on}, {bonk}]
5: go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn" [syn: {go to bed}, {turn in}, {crawl in}, {kip down}, {hit the hay}, {hit the sack}, {sack out}, {go to sleep}, {retire}] [ant: {get up}, {get up}] [also: {bedding}, {bedded}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: coverings that are used on a bed [syn: {bedclothes}, {bed clothing}]
2: material used to provide a bed for animals [syn: {bedding material}, {litter}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "bedding": afghan, air mattress, band, base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedrock, bedsheet, bedspread, belt, blanket, bolster, buffalo robe, case, clothes, comfort, comforter, contour sheet, couche, counterpane, course, cover, coverlet, coverlid, cushion, deck, eiderdown, fitted sheet, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, gallery, ground, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, innerspring mattress, lap robe, layer, ledge, level, linen, litter, mat, mattress, measures, overlayer, overstory, pad, pallet, patchwork quilt, pavement, pillow, pillow slip, pillowcase, principle, quilt, radical, riprap, robe, rock bottom, rudiment, rug, seam, seat, sheet, sheeting, shelf, sill, sleeping bag, slip, solid ground, solid rock, spread, springs, stage, step, stereobate, story, stratum, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, superstratum, terra firma, thickness, tier, topsoil, underbed, underbedding, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underlayer, underpinning, understory, understratum, understruction, understructure, zone
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