Be*dew"y (&?;), a. Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.]

Night with her bedewy wings.

A. Brewer.

Bed"fel`low (&?;), n. One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.

{ Bed"fere` Bed"phere` } (&?;), n. [Bed + AS. fera a companion.] A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.

Bed"gown` (&?;), n. A nightgown.

Be*dight" (&?;), v. t. [p. p. Bedight, Bedighted.] To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.

Be*dim" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedimmed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bedimming.] To make dim; to obscure or darken. Shak.

Be*diz"en (&?;), v. t. To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters.

Sir W. Scott.

Be*diz"en*ment (&?;), n. That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

Bed"key` (&?;), n. An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

Bed"lam (&?;), n. [See Bethlehem.] 1. A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse. Abp. Tillotson.

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