abed English
Adverb
( en adverb)
In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616),(Twelfth Night), II, iii
- Not to be abed after midnight
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days], chapter=Ep./4/2
, passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed .}}
To childbed
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616), (Titus Andronicus), IV, ii
- "I mean, she's brought a-bed "
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baed English
Verb
(head)
(ba)
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ba Etymology 1
Compare Old French ; French bayer
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
In ancient Egyptian mythology, a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
* 1983 , Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings :
- But the Ba , I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.
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