beddal, beddel, beddell

IMG:content-1181.png:[blocks in formation] A. & B. As present participle and participial adjective: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. C. As substantive. [From Eng. bed, ing. In Dut. bedding bed, layer, stratum; Sw. bäddning; Ger. bettung.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A bed with the clothes upon it; materials for rendering a bedstead comfortable to a sleeper. "The disease had generally spared those who had warm garments and bedding."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xv. 2. Litter for the domestic animals to lie upon. "First, with a iduous care from winter keep, Well fother'd in the stall, thy tender sheep; Then spread with straw the bedding of thy fold." Dryden. II. Technically : 1. Geol. Stratification, or the line or plane of stratification. "The planes of cleavage stand in most cases at a high angle to the bedding." - Tyndall: Frag. of Science, 3rd ed., xiv. 410. 2. Mech . The seat on which a boiler or anything similar rests.