Search the Dictionary

Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



1,352 words match “BED”

UNBEDINNED a.
Not filled with din.
UNOBEDIENCE n.
Disobedience. [Obs.] Wyclif.
UNOBEDIENT a.
Disobedient. [Obs.] Milton.
UNSHRUBBED a.
Being without shrubs.
VARTABED n.
A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church. Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.
WATER BED n.
of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients.
WEBBED a. 2 definitions
Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.
A- n.
signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive…
ABANDON v.
That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.
ABORTION n.
Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
ABRASE a.
Rubbed smooth. [Obs.] "An abrase table." B. Jonson.
ABRASION n.
The substance rubbed off. Berkeley.
ABSORB v. 2 definitions
To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.
ABSORBABLE a.
Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up. Kerr.
ABSORBENT a.
prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.
ABSORPT a.
Absorbed. [Arcahic.] "Absorpt in care." Pope.
ABSORPTION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
ACADEMICALS n.
The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
ACCOUCHEMENT n.
Delivery in childbed
ADDENDUM n.
be added; an appendix or addition. Addendum circle (Mech.), the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.
← Previous Page 9 of 68 Next →