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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. |
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(Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage. |
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A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. |
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A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals. |
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The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river. |
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