Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bed \Bed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bedded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bedding}.]
   1. To place in a bed. [Obs.] --Bacon.

   2. To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.

            I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. --Shak.

   3. To furnish with a bed or bedding.

   4. To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed
      of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.

   5. To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and
      security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish
      with 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.

   6. (Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as
      to serve as a bed.

   7. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or
      recumbent position. ``Bedded hair.'' --Shak.

Bedding \Bed"ding\, n. [AS. bedding, beding. See {Bed}.]
   1. A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether
      for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

   2. (Geol.) The state or position of beds and layers.

Source : WordNet®

bedding
     n 1: coverings that are used on a bed [syn: {bedclothes}, {bed
          clothing}]
     2: material used to provide a bed for animals [syn: {bedding
        material}, {litter}]

bed
     n 1: a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat
          on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and
          chair"
     2: a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener
        planted a bed of roses"
     3: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he
        searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: {bottom}]
     4: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock);
        "they found a bed of standstone"
     5: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with
        profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [syn: {seam}]
     6: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
        "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: {layer}]
     7: the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form
        is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or
        magazine or book etc.
     8: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad
        track; "the track bed had washed away"
     [also: {bedding}, {bedded}]

bed
     v 1: furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new
          arrivals"
     2: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
     3: put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
     4: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
        everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
        intimate with this man?" [syn: {roll in the hay}, {love},
        {make out}, {make love}, {sleep with}, {get laid}, {have
        sex}, {know}, {do it}, {be intimate}, {have intercourse},
        {have it away}, {have it off}, {screw}, {fuck}, {jazz}, {eff},
         {hump}, {lie with}, {have a go at it}, {bang}, {get it on},
         {bonk}]
     5: go to bed in order to sleep; "I usually turn in at
        midnight"; "He turns out at the crack of dawn" [syn: {go
        to bed}, {turn in}, {crawl in}, {kip down}, {hit the hay},
         {hit the sack}, {sack out}, {go to sleep}, {retire}]
        [ant: {get up}, {get up}]
     [also: {bedding}, {bedded}]

bedding
     See {bed}