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The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. [Colloq.]

To moisten with dew, or as with dew. "Falling tears his face bedew." Dryden.

One who, or that which, bedews.

Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.

A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.

A nightgown.

To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.

To make dim; to obscure or darken. Shak.

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

That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. [Obs.] Let's get the bedlam to lead him. Shak.

An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman. "Raving bedlamites." Beattie.

One who makes beds.

To cause to dote; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. -- Bed"ou*in*ism (, n.

A pan for warming beds. Nares.

See Bedfere. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

oundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.