Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BE'DEL-RY, n.

The extent of a bedel's office. Blount.

BE-DEW', v.t. [be and dew.]

To moisten, as with dew; to moisten in a gentle manner with any liquid; as, tears bedew her face. Shak.

BE-DEW'ED, pp.

Moistened, as if with dew; gently moistened.

BE-DEW'ER, n.

That which bedews. Sherwood.

BE-DEW'ING, ppr.

Moistening gently, as with dew; wetting.

BE-DEW'Y, a.

Moist with dew. [Little used.]

BED'FEL-LOW, n. [bed and fellow.]

One who lies in the same bed. Shak.

BED'-HANG-INGS, n.

Curtains. Shak.

BE-DIGHT', v.t. [bedi'te; be and dight.]

To adorn; to dress; to set off with ornaments. [Little used.] More.

BE-DIGHT'ED, pp.

Adorned; set off with ornaments.

BE-DIGHT'ING, ppr.

Adorning.

BE-DIM', v.t. [be and dim.]

To make dim; to obscure or darken. Sidney.

BE-DIM'MED, pp.

Made dim; obscured.

BE-DIM'MING, ppr.

Making dim; obscuring; darkening.

BE-DIZ'EN, v.t. [bediz'n; be and dizen.]

To adorn; to deck; a low word.

BE-DIZ'EN-ED, pp.

Bedecked; adorned.

BE-DIZ'EN-ING, ppr.

Adorning.

BED'LAM, a.

Belonging to mad-house; fit for a mad-house. Shak.

BED'LAM, n. [Corrupted from Bethlehem, the name of a religious house in London, afterward converted into a hospital for lunatics.]

1. A mad-house; a place appropriated for lunatics. Spelman.
2. A madman; a lunatic; one who lives in Bedlam. Shak.
3. A place of uproar.

BED'LAM-ITE, n.

An inhabitant of a mad-house; a madman. B. Jonson.

BED'MA-KER, n. [bed and maker.]

One whose occupation is to make beds, as in a college or university. Spectator.

BED'MATE, n. [bed and mate.]

A bed-fellow. Shak.

BED'MOLD-ING, n. [bed and molding.]

In architecture, the members of a cornice, which are placed below the coronet, consisting of an ogee, a list, a large boultine, and another list under the coronet. Encyc.

BE-DOTE', v.t. [be and dote.]

To make to dote. [Not in use.] Chaucer.

BED'POST, n. [bed and post.]

The post of a bedstead.