beddeth

Verb

bed (third-person singular simple present beds, present participle bedding, simple past and past participle bedded)

1. (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
   • I usually listen to music before I bed.
2. (transitive) To place in a bed.
   • For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
3. (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
4. (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
   • And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]1730, William Forbes, The Institutes of the Law of Scotland, page 121

   Synonyms:

   coitize, go to bed with, sleep with, Formal terms, coit, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, have

5. (intransitive) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
6. (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
   • 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
     Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.

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