Definition of: bed

(bed) noun
1. An article of furniture to rest or sleep in or on: either the stuffed tick or mattress, on which the body rests, the mattress and bedclothes, the bedstead, or all combined; a couch.
2. Any place or thing used for a couch or for sleeping in or on.
3. Something likened to or serving as a bed, foundation, or support: the bed of a lake, a rocky bed.
4. The marriage bed; marriage.
5. Conjugal cohabitation, or the right to it.
6. A heavy horizontal mass of matter or a collection of closely massed objects, especially used as a foundation or support.
7. Anything resembling or used for a bed.
8. A part or surface that serves as a foundation.
9. The part of a printing press which supports the form, or a part from which work is fed to a machine.
10. A layer of mortar in which stones or bricks are to be laid.
11. A horizontal course of a stone wall.
12. The lower side of a slate, tile, or brick.
13. A plot of ground prepared for planting some particular thing, or the plants, etc., growing in such a plot.
14. A roadbed or a foundation for rails.
15. Geol. Any layer in a mass of stratified rock; a seam; a deposit, as of ore, parallel to the stratification.
16. A wagon body.
—v. bed·ded, bed·ding v.t.
1. To furnish with a bed.
2. To put to bed.
3. To make a bed for; provide with litter: often with down: to bed cattle down.
4. To set out or plant in a bed or earth.
5. To have sexual intercourse with.
6. To lay flat or arrange in layers; to bed oysters.
7. To place firmly; embed.
—v.i.
8. To go to bed.
9. To form a closely packed layer; stratify. [OE]
—bed′der noun ◆ Bed may appear as a combining form, in hyphemes or solidemes, or as the first element in two-word phrases, which name things used for, in, or about a bed; as in: