Bed
in ordinary language, an article Originally, a bed was the skin of a beast stretched upon the floor; then rushes, heath, and after a time straw were substituted. A stituted. A modern bed consists of a stuffed with feathers, hair, or other materials, with bolster, blankets, etc., the whole raised from the ground on a bedstead.
The term bed sometimes excludes and sometimes includes the bedstead. In In bed of a native, at least on his travels, India, and other Eastern countries, the carpet; his bed clothes are his scarf or is simply a mat, a rug, or a bit of old plaid. piece or portion of anything on which In mechanics, a bed is the foundation the body of it rests, as the bed piece of grinding mill; or the box, body, or re- a steam engine; the lower stone of a ceptacle of a vehicle. sician and author, born in Sheffield, April