Bedevil
(Be*dev"il) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedevilled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bedeviling or Bedevilling.]
1. To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical
influence; to torment.
Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew.
Sterne.
2. To spoil; to corrupt. Wright.
Bedevilment
(Be*dev"il*ment) n. The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.
[Colloq.]
Bedew
(Be*dew") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedewed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bedewing.] To moisten with dew,
or as with dew. "Falling tears his face bedew." Dryden.
Bedewer
(Be*dew"er) n. One who, or that which, bedews.
Bedewy
(Be*dew"y) a. Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.]
Night with her bedewy wings.
A. Brewer.
Bedfellow
(Bed"fel`low) n. One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
Bedfere Bedphere
(Bed"fere` Bed"phere`) n. [Bed + AS. fera a companion.] A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.
Bedgown
(Bed"gown`) n. A nightgown.
Bedight
(Be*dight") v. t. [p. p. Bedight, Bedighted.] To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic]
Milton.
Bedim
(Be*dim") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedimmed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bedimming.] To make dim; to obscure
or darken. Shak.
Bedizen
(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.
Bedizenment
(Be*diz"en*ment) n. That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed,
tawdrily.
Bedkey
(Bed"key`) n. An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.
Bedlam
(Bed"lam) n. [See Bethlehem.]
1. A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse. Abp. Tillotson.
2. An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. [Obs.]
Let's get the bedlam to lead him.
Shak.
3. Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.
Bedlam
(Bed"lam), a. Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse. "The bedlam, brainsick duchess." Shak.
Bedlamite
(Bed"lam*ite) n. An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman. "Raving bedlamites." Beattie.
