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To daggle.

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." Shak.

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

To dazzle or make dim by a strong light. "Bedazzled with the sun." Shak.

ucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a q…

Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.

A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.

Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.

A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester. Chaucer.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

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.

,n.Same as Beadhouse.

,n.Same as Beadle.

Beadleship. [Obs.] Blount.

The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

Same as Beadsman. [Obs.]

on, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.