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7 words match “ABED”

ABED adv. 2 definitions
In bed, or on the bed. Not to be abed after midnight. Shak.
PISSABED n.
A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
SLUGABED n.
One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard. [R.] "Fie, you slugabed!" Shak.
VARTABED n.
A doctor or teacher in the Armenian church. Members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.
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…
DAUB n.
A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.
LATE adv.
Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night. Of late, in time not long past, or near the present; lately; as, the practice is of late uncommon. -- Too late, after the proper or available time; when the time or opportunity is past.