Becoming, be-kum'-ing, ppr

or a. suitable; befitting; graceful. Becomingly, be-kum'-ing-le, ad. in a becoming manner. Becomingne , be-kum -ing-nes, s. the quality of being becom.ng. Bed, bed, s. an article of furniture to sleep and rest on; marriage; a division or plot of ground in a garden; the channel of a river; that on which anything lies or is embedded; a layer or a stratum;the horizontal surfaces of stones in position: v.a. to place in bed; to plant in beds; to lay inbed; tolay in a stratum; to lay in order, orflat: v.n. to cohabit; to use the same bed. Bed of justice, a formal se ion of the French Parlement, under the presidency of the king, for the compulsory registration of the royal edicts. To bring to bed, or to put to bed to deliver of a child. To be brought to bed, to be delivered. of a child. From bed and board, the separation of husband and wife [Law].