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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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BED, v.¹, tr. and intr. To put to bed. In St.Eng. poet. or arch. except of horses, etc. (Concise Eng. Dict.). Virtually obs. (Un. Eng. Dict.). [bɛd, bèd Sc.: bæd s.Sc.]Sc. 1754 Nairne Peerage Evidence (1873) 54:
William Sangster . . . was married to his wife that same day in the house of Stanley where they were bedded.Abd.¹³ 1914:
Aifter the chillies wis a' beddit he gid tull a barber an' got's baird shaven aff.Ags. 1834 A. Smart Rambling Rhymes 233:
Sma' was the cost or care she needit — Just pou the tow up when she beddit.Hdg. 1885 “S. Mucklebackit” Rural Rhymes 93:
O' bluidy day! . . . That wrapt my lad in bluidy clay An' beded me with misery.w.Dmf. 1912 A. Anderson Surfaceman's Later Poems 3:
An' just afore we bed oorsel's We look at oor wee lambs.

ppl.adj. bedded, having gone to bed. Also beddit up, confined to bed through illness. ne.Sc. 1974:
He's been beddit up wi the flu for a week.m.Lth. 1864 A. Johnston Lays of Edina 64:
As sleep 'gins the tired bedded trav'ller to sway. vbl.n. beddin(g), bedden.wm.Sc. 1980 Anna Blair The Rowan on the Ridge 6:
When the bairns were bedded the sun had gone down and Jamie set off to inspect the rigs, which he hoped Hugh would be clearing with his friends by now.

(1) Going to bed; putting to bed.Ags. 1820 A. Balfour Contemplation, etc. 269:
A' pley's are hushed at hour o' beddin'.Ayr. 1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage 200:
O! rough be their hinner en', an' saut be their last beddin!

(2) The ceremony of putting a bride to bed.Sc. 1875 W. A. Smith Lewsiana 85:
The girls are called off to the bedding of the bride in another apartment.ne.Sc. 1884 D. Grant Lays and Leg. of the North (1908) 71:
When the mither blithely entered Frae the beddin' o' her bairn.Edb. 1813 W. Glass Caledonian Parnassus 53:
But now they repair'd a' to witness the beddin'.Ayr. 1892 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage, etc., and Poems 176:
But safe us! when the lad was led in To mint at bridal bed an' beddin' . . . He tint his tether stick again.