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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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Etymology of 'Bedded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bedded" Quotes from Famous Books

... Connecticut. More to our present purpose, the apologetic way in which Miss Sedgwick speaks of these high-bred prejudices of her father, shows that she does not share them. "The Federalists," she says, "stood upright, and their feet firmly planted on the rock of aristocracy but that rock was bedded in the sands, or rather was a boulder from the Old World, and the tide of democracy was surely ...

— Daughters of the Puritans - A Group of Brief Biographies • Seth Curtis Beach

... illumine the very depths of the solitude with smiles. A pleasant perfume was wafted from the Arbutus, just putting forth its delicate blossoms from their sheltering covert of dark-green leaves, mingled with the breath of the snowy-petaled dogwood, and the blue violets that were bedded in the rich moss on the banks of the little stream. The brook itself went singing on its way as it wound through the darksome forest, and fell with a plash, and a murmur, over the huge stones that would have turned it aside ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 • Various

... the Hanley Ranch were altogether taken up by the extra help required to feed the threshers. So the threshers themselves occupied tents, and it was in one of these that Whitey and Injun were bedded, much to their joy. It fitted in with their plans to watch Dorgan, and see if they could learn something that would confirm their suspicions ...

— Injun and Whitey to the Rescue • William S. Hart

... well as the lowly, welcomed him. All he wanted was accommodations for himself and his horse, and these were freely given. He looked after the care of his horse himself, and always the last thing at night he would see that his horse was properly fed and bedded. ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 9 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers • Elbert Hubbard

... things, an' kind o' notice fellers, an' that's how I sized you up. Y' see I've done a heap o' settin' around M'skeeter Bend fer nigh on ten years, mostly watchin'. Now, mebbe, y' ain't never sot no plant, an' bedded it gentle wi' sifted mould, an' watered it careful, an' sot right ther' on a box, an' watched it grow in a spot wher' ther' wa'n't no bizness ...

— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum

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