ppl. a. [f. BED v. + -ED1.]
1. Put to bed, having gone to bed; lying in bed.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XVIII. 197. Vuel-cloþed … Baddeliche beddyd.
1625. Boys, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xlv. 9. Spiritually the wedded and bedded wife to the king of glory.
1773. J. Robertson, Poems, 292. All silent was the bedded house.
1839. Haliburton, Letter-bag Gt. West., i. 4. Bedded all day. That word saloon had haunted me ever since. Rose in the evening.
1855. Longf., Hiaw., III. 76. Bedded soft in moss and rushes.
2. Lying at rest in their lair, or bed; cf. BED v. 14.
1653. Walton, Angler, 185. Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest, The bedded fish in banks outwrest.
3. Growing in a bed.
1818. Keats, Endym., I. 239. Dost sit and hearken The dreary melody of bedded reeds?
4. Deeply or firmly fixed; embedded.
1641. D. Cawdrey, Three Serm. The spawne and seed of corruption which lies bedded in our hearts.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, II. xv. Yon earth-bedded jetting stone.
5. Laid or strewn in a smooth layer.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. iv. 121. Your bedded haire Start up, and stand an end.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, iii. 443. Light-edged shadows on the bedded sand.
6. Existing in beds or layers; stratified in beds.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1833), III. 65. A similar compact variety of the limestone occurs … often very thick bedded.
1858. Geikie, Hist. Boulder, xii. 247. The bedded or contemporaneous trap-rocks.
7. In comb. Having a bed.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. ix. Not sufficiently honoured, nourished, soft-bedded.
1862. Barnes, Rhymes Dorset Dial., II. 100. Above the gravel-bedded rill.
