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Be"del*ry (&?;), n. Beadleship. [Obs.] Blount.

||Bed"en (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

Bedes"man (&?;), n. Same as Beadsman. [Obs.]

Be*dev"il (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedevilled (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bedeviling or Bedevilling.] 1. To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.

2. To spoil; to corrupt. Wright.

Be*dev"il*ment (&?;), n. The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. [Colloq.]

Be*dew" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedewed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bedewing.] To moisten with dew, or as with dew. "Falling tears his face bedew." Dryden.

Be*dew"er (&?;), n. One who, or that which, bedews.

Be*dew"y (&?;), a. Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.]

Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

Bed"fel`low (&?;), n. One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.

{ Bed"fere` Bed"phere` } (&?;), n. [Bed + AS. fera a companion.] A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.

Bed"gown` (&?;), n. A nightgown.

Be*dight" (&?;), v. t. [p. p. Bedight, Bedighted.] To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.

Be*dim" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedimmed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bedimming.] To make dim; to obscure or darken. Shak.

Be*diz"en (&?;), v. t. To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

Be*diz"en*ment (&?;), n. That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

Bed"key` (&?;), n. An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

Bed"lam (&?;), n. [See Bethlehem.] 1. A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse. Abp. Tillotson.

2. An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. [Obs.]

Let's get the bedlam to lead him. Shak.

3. Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.

Bed"lam, a. Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess." Shak.

Bed"lam*ite (&?;), n. An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman. "Raving bedlamites." Beattie.

Bed"mak`er (&?;), n. One who makes beds.

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