1. (geology) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers
   "bedded rock";
   - stratified
    
2. Having a bed or beds as specified
   "The hotel room was double-bedded"

1. Furnish with a bed
   "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"
    
2. Place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
   "The gardener bedded the new rose bushes"
    
3. Put to bed
   "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
    
4. [informal] Have sexual intercourse
   "they bedded in the back of the car";
   - sleep together, love, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it [informal], be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], get it on [informal]
    
5. Prepare for sleep
   "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn";
   - go to bed, turn in [informal], kip down [informal], hit the hay [informal], hit the sack [informal], sack out [N. Amer, informal], go to sleep, retire

See also: double-bedded, foliaceous, foliate, foliated, laminal, laminar, layered, sheetlike, single-bedded, superimposed, twin-bedded

Type of: copulate, couple, furnish, go, lay, locomote, mate, move, offer, pair, place, plant, pose, position, provide, put, render, set, supply, travel

Antonym: bedless, turn out, unstratified

Encyclopedia: Bed, Bath and Be Gone