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or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

To make a daff or fool of. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a q…

To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester. Chaucer.

A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.

To cause to dote; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

To mend; to repair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house. Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Ps. xxxvii. 25.

A beggar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

See Behight. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To promise; to vow. Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey.

To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer.

To jape; to laugh at; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To confess; to acknowledge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Good friend; dear friend. [Obs.] Chaucer.