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Bed

noun

1.

A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep. "The room had only a bed and chair"

2.

A plot of ground in which plants are growing.

3.

A depression forming the ground under a body of water. Synonym: bottom.

4.

(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock).

5.

A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit. Synonym: seam.

6.

Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance. Synonym: 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.

verb

(past & past part. bedded; pres. part. bedding)

1.

Furnish with a bed.

2.

Place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil.

3.

Put to bed.

4.

Have sexual intercourse with. Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with. "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

5.

Prepare for sleep. Synonyms: crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in. "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn" Antonyms: get up, turn out.

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"Bed" Quotes from Famous Books

... ordered me away from home. I had few clothes and no satched. I was the baby of the family, yet not A very delicate sample of a baby. I had the fire burning for adventure in my young bosom, I bade my mother good bye as I went to bed, she never knew how long it would be till she kissed to sleep those black marbles, as she used to call my eyes; I arose at about one oclock in the morning and roused up my brother picked up our kit and set out for the Twin bridges of ...

— Black Beaver - The Trapper • James Campbell Lewis

... we are used to that," interjected Ned. "We have slept out of doors so long now that we should not feel comfortable in a real bed." ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in Montana • Frank Gee Patchin

... masters of the castle, destroying everything around them and making night hideous with their ferocious yells. At last they reached the summer-house. The Marquis was deposited upon a hastily improvised bed; the Abbe Peretty, assisted by Philip and Antoinette, attempted to dress his wound; and two men started in the hope of reaching Remoulins by a circuitous route, in order to bring a physician and call upon the inhabitants of the village ...

— Which? - or, Between Two Women • Ernest Daudet

... in his blanket and lay down by the little fire that he had built. The dry, clean earth made a good bed, and with his left elbow under his head he gazed into the fire, which, like all fires of buffalo chips, was now rapidly dying, leaving little behind but light ashes that the first ...

— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler

... He was introduced the next day into her father's house by a friend of his, who was a relation of the old gentleman's. They were shown into the invalid's room. Charlotte, with her arms round her father's waist, was gently helping him to rise in the bed; and her expressive countenance showed how tenderly she sympathized in the pain he felt. As soon as she was gone out of the room, her father, whose heart was warm with gratitude, could not help breaking out into an exclamation of his happiness in possessing ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 • Various

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