bed

bed is a Noun

Definition:

[1] An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.

[2] A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. "Beds of hyacinth and roses." Milton.

[3] A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

[4] The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river. So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed. Milton.

[5] A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

[6] See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

[7] The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

[8] A course of stone or brick in a wall.

[9] The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

[10] The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. Knight.

[11] The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.

[12] The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.

[13] The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.