2. (Geol.)
Defn: The state or position of beds and layers.
BEDE
Bede, v. t. Etym: [See Bid, v. t.]
Defn: To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.
Chaucer.
BEDE
Bede, n. (Mining)
Defn: A kind of pickax.
BEDECK
Be*deck", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedecked (p. pr. & vb. n. Bedecking.]
Defn: To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.
BEDEGUAR; BEDEGAR Bed"e*guar, Bed"e*gar, n. Etym: [F., fr. Per. bad-award, or bad- awardag, prop., a kind of white thorn or thistle.]
Defn: A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.