Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BED, v.t.

1. To place in a bed. – Bacon.
2. To go to bed with. [Unusual.] – Shak.
3. To make partaker of the bed. – Bacon.
4. To plant and inclose or cover; to set or lay and inclose; as, to bed the roots of a plant in soft mold.
5. To lay in any hollow place, surrounded or inclosed; as, to bed a stone.
6. To lay in a place of rest or security, covered, surrounded or inclosed; as, a fish bedded in sand, or under a bank.
7. To lay in a stratum; to stratify; to lay in order, or flat; as, bedded clay, bedded hairs. – Shak.