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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

... one as a simpler nature, but she too had distinctly the note of refinement which was out of harmony with these surroundings. They occupied only two rooms, the sleeping-chamber being double-bedded; they purchased food for themselves and prepared their own meals, excepting dinner. During the first week a good many tears were shed by both of them; it was not easy to transfer themselves from the comfortable country home to ...

— New Grub Street • George Gissing

... thing on which Pearl Higgins prided herself it was her bed. It was a mountainous, whale-backed, feather-bedded four-poster, built in the days of San Domingo mahogany, and quite capable of supporting the weight of a baby elephant without a quiver. Equipped with the legs of a colossus it had a frame to match. Tradition had it that a governor of the state had once lain ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... free knee-action," remarked Shoop. "Mebby when he's bedded down for the night you can come over to ...

— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

... 'possum hunting one night in de fall when de dogs bedded a 'possum in a grave. We dug down and got de 'possum. He was dat big and fat and his hair was so shiny and purty dat we 'lowed dat he de finest 'possum we had cotch ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... get more than you think," said Dan, whose words always carried weight because he was mate of a deep-sea tug. "Captain Barney Hodge's Three Sisters was laid up yesterday; a three-foot piece of piling bedded in an ice-cake got caught in her screw, and—zip! The other fellows are feeling so good about it that I think they'll be apt ...

— Dan Merrithew • Lawrence Perry

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