Bed

1. n. The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
2. n. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
3. n. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
4. n. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
5. n. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
6. n. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
7. n. A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
8. n. See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
9. n. The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
10. n. A course of stone or brick in a wall.
11. 1n. 1 The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
12. 1n. 1 An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.