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One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.

A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.

To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift.

To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.

To dribble upon.

Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.

The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. Shak.

To drizzle upon.

A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

To sprinkle, as with drops. The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope.

To drug abundantly or excessively.

The side of a bed.

A recess in a room for a bed. Of the three bedrooms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size, with windows and bedsite well placed. Quart. Rev.

A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.

A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. [U. S.]

"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

A framework for supporting a bed.

The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

Straw put into a bed. Bacon.