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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.

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.