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1,352 words match “BED”

BEDECK v.
To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.
BEDEGUAR; BEDEGAR n.
A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
BEDEHOUSE n.
,n.Same as Beadhouse.
BEDEL; BEDELL n.
,n.Same as Beadle.
BEDELRY n.
Beadleship. [Obs.] Blount.
BEDEN n.
The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.
BEDESMAN n.
Same as Beadsman. [Obs.]
BEDEVIL v. 2 definitions
on, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.
BEDEVILMENT n.
The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. [Colloq.]
BEDEW v.
To moisten with dew, or as with dew. "Falling tears his face bedew." Dryden.
BEDEWER n.
One who, or that which, bedews.
BEDEWY a.
Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.
BEDFELLOW n.
One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
BEDFERE; BEDPHERE n.
A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.
BEDGOWN n.
A nightgown.
BEDIGHT v.
To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.
BEDIM v.
To make dim; to obscure or darken. Shak.
BEDIZEN v.
se taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.
BEDIZENMENT n.
That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
BEDKEY n.
An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.
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