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A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.

Fem. of Beadsman.

Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.

Bilobate.

The marriage bed. [Poetic]

Having a bulb; round-headed.

The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

Chubby. [R.] H. Brooke.

The state of being chubby.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. Skelton.

Abounding in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage." Young.

Corymbose.

r moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.

The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.

of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.