*eds*

n. a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).
Syn. -- bedsitting room, bedsitter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A recess in a room for a bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of the three bedrooms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size, with windows and bedsite well placed. Quart. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).
Syn. -- bedsitting room, bedsit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bedstaves “A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bed + stead a frame. ] A framework for supporting a bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. [ Obs. or Dial. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Straw put into a bed. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum. --
White bedstraw is Galium mollugo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ AS. Chiltern the Chiltern, high hills in Buckinghamshire, perh. Fr. ceald cold + ern, ærn, place. ] A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Religion) performance of moral or religious acts; salvation is not by deeds, but by faith; to do good deeds.
Syn. -- works. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Fridstol. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Fridstol. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hung. honvēdsēg; honvēd + sēg, an abstract or collective suffix. ] (Hungary) See Army organization, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Bot.) The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as man of action. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ Orig. gen. of need, used as an adverb. Cf. -wards. ] Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man must needs love mauger his head. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

And he must needs go through Samaria. John iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

He would needs know the cause of his repulse. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Of necessity. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Of necessity. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Pedestal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called from the Isle of Purbeck in England. ] (Geol.) The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oolitic group. See the Chart of Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short. Moxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) (a) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (Totanus fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee. (b) The fieldfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. It is now considered pejorative by some persons of North American Indian heritage. Cooper. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Football) A member of the Washington Redskins, a football team. [ PJC ]

n. [ Red + start tail. ] (Zool.) (a) A small, handsome European singing bird (Phoenicurus phoenicurus, formerly Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is Phoenicurus ochruros (formerly Phoenicurus tithys), and is now rare and protected by law in England. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla and allied genera, native of India. (b) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cider pressed from redstreak apples. [ 1913 Webster ]