Bedbug

(Zool.) See BUG. Bed'-chair, n. A chair for the sick, with a movable back, to sustain them while sitting up in bed. Bed'-chamber, n. An apartment or chamber for a bed, or for sleep and repose. Lords of the B. are officers of the English Royal Household under the Groom of the Stole . (See GROOM.) The Lords of the B. consist usually of the prime nobility of England. Their high office-an object of great ambition, from the acce it gives to the person of the sovereign is performed by ladies called Ladies of the Bedchamber, and Bed - chamber Women, in the reign of a queen. Queen Victoria has eight Ladies of the Bed-chamber, and three extra; and eight Bed-chamber Women, and one extra. In 1839, Sir Robert Peel, on forming a new ministry, made the unusual request to be permitted to change the ladies of the bed-chamber, a request which he said circumstances justified. This being declined, he resigned his premiership. Bed clothes, n. pl. Coverlets, blankets, sheets, ., for a bed. "And in his sleep does little harm, save to his bedclothes about him." - Shaks. mill.