Anagrams of: BBDEIL

• the sacred writings of the Christian religions

• a book regarded as authoritative in its field

• (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

• lose blood from one's body

• draw blood

• get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

• be diffused

• drain of liquid or steam

• dwell

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• the outward flow of the tide

• flow back or recede

• hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb

• fall away or decline

• top part of an apron; covering the chest

• a napkin tied under the chin of a child while eating

• drink moderately but regularly

• a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

• a plot of ground in which plants are growing

• a depression forming the ground under a body of water

• (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)

• a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit

• single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

• the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.

• a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track

• furnish with a bed

• place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil

• put to bed

• have sexual intercourse with

• prepare for sleep

• an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

• an attempt to get something

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

• propose a payment

• invoke upon

• ask for or request earnestly

• make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands

• make a serious effort to attain something

• ask someone in a friendly way to do something