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A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.

To furnish with a bed or bedding.

press. (b) A driving axle. with cranks set at an angle of 90º with each other. -- Cross bedding (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds, -- Cross bill. See in the Vocabulary. -- Cross bitt. Same as Crosspiece. -- Cross bond, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one stretcher course come midway betwe…

conveniently marked on a plain scale. -- Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding, under Cross, a.

Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.

The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.

hough the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.

Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants. To crouch in litter of your stable planks. Shak. Take off the litter from your kernel beds. Evelyn.

tton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body. He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. 10, 11. If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me I…

Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.