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verb

Bed v. t. (past & past part. bedded; pres. part. bedding)

To place in a bed. (Obs.)

To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. "I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her."

To furnish with a bed or bedding.

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.

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."

(Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. "Bedded hair."

Bed v. i. To go to bed; to cohabit. "If he be married, and bed with his wife."

adjective

Bedded adj. Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.

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"Bedded" Quotes from Famous Books

... seven at night. I took possession of a large two-bedded room, and, as I was preparing to sit down to supper, the hostess came to inquire whether I had any objection to receive a young Spaniard for the night. She said he had just arrived with a train of muleteers, and that ...

— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow

... Knox communicates the following: In a girls' boarding-school several years ago two of the boarders were sleeping in a large double-bedded room with two doors. About two o'clock in the morning the girls were awakened by the entrance of a tall figure in clerical attire, the face of which they did not see. They screamed in fright, but the figure moved in a slow and stately manner past their beds, ...

— True Irish Ghost Stories • St John D Seymour

... duly travelled over, and "The Babes in the Wood" listened to with laughter in its flourishing cities, its mining-camps among the mountains, and its "new placers beside gold-bedded rivers. While journeying through that strangely- beautiful land, the serious question arose—What was to be ...

— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne

... waggery fell upon honest Humphry and his spouse, who were bedded in an upper room, with the usual ceremony of throwing the stocking. — This being performed, and the company withdrawn, a sort of catterwauling ensued, when Jack found means to introduce a real cat shod with walnut-shells, which galloping along the boards, made such a dreadful noise as effectually ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... health became seriously affected, and he resolved to visit Bristol. Coleridge, who was affectionately attached to Allston, followed him thither. "The house was so full," writes Leslie, in his autobiographical recollections, "that the poet was obliged to share a double-bedded room with me. We were kept up late in consequence of the critical condition of Allston, and when we retired Coleridge, seeing a copy of Knickerbocker's History of New York which I had brought with me, lying on the table, took ...

— The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 • Albert Smyth

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