These are the meanings of the letters DEBBY when you unscramble them.
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Bed (n.)
An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
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Bed (n.)
(Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
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Bed (n.)
A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
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Bed (n.)
A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
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Bed (n.)
The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
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Bed (n.)
A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
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Bed (n.)
See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
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Bed (n.)
The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
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Bed (n.)
A course of stone or brick in a wall.
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Bed (n.)
The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
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Bed (n.)
The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
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Bed (n.)
The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.
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Bed (n.)
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
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Bed (n.)
The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
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Bed (v. t.)
To place in a bed.
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Bed (v. t.)
To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
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Bed (v. t.)
To furnish with a bed or bedding.
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Bed (v. t.)
To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
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Bed (v. t.)
To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
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Bed (v. t.)
To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
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Bed (v. t.)
To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
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Bed (v. i.)
To go to bed; to cohabit.
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Bey (n.)
A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.
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Bye (n.)
A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication.
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Bye (n.)
A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye.
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Bye (n.)
A dwelling.
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Bye (n.)
In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.
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Dey (n.)
A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
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Dey (n.)
The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.
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Dye (v. t.)
To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.
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Dye (n.)
Color produced by dyeing.
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Dye (n.)
Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.
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Dye (n.)
Same as Die, a lot.
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Ebb (n.)
The European bunting.
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Ebb (n.)
The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb.
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Ebb (n.)
The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.
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Ebb (v. i.)
To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.
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Ebb (v. i.)
To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.
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Ebb (v. t.)
To cause to flow back.
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Ebb (a.)
Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.