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.