Bed

1. a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well. 2. the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed. 3. the bedstead alone. 4. the act of or time for sleeping: Now for a cup of cocoa and then bed. 5. the use of a bed for the night; lodging: I reserved a bed at the old inn. 6. the marital relationship. 7. any resting place: making his bed under a tree. 8. something resembling a bed in form or position. 9. a piece or area of ground in a garden or lawn in which plants are grown. 10. an area in a greenhouse in which plants are grown. 11. the plants in such areas. 12. the bottom of a lake, river, sea, or other body of water. 13. a piece or part forming a foundation or base. 14. a layer of rock; a stratum. 15. a foundation surface of earth or rock supporting a track, pavement, or the like: a gravel bed for the roadway. 16. Building Trades. the underside of a stone, brick, slate, tile, etc., laid in position. the upper side of a stone laid in position. the layer of mortar in which a brick, stone, etc., is laid. the natural stratification of a stone: a stone laid on bed. 17. Furniture. skirt (def 6b). 18. the flat surface in a printing press on which the form of type is laid. 19. Transportation. the body or, sometimes, the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer. 20. Chemistry. a compact mass of a substance functioning in a reaction as a catalyst or reactant. 21. Sports. the canvas surface of a trampoline. the smooth, wooden floor of a bowling alley. the slate surface of a billiard table to which the cloth is fastened. 22. Zoology. flesh enveloping the base of a claw, especially the germinative layer beneath the claw. 23. Also called mock, mock mold. Shipbuilding. a shaped steel pattern upon which furnaced plates for the hull of a vessel are hammered to shape. 24. bed and board.