bedlamite (bedlam it)

[ What means the Bedlamite by this freak? Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales, II. bedlam it ish (bed'lam-it-ish), a. [ bedlamite + -ish.] Resembling or characteristic of a bedlamite or madman. Their Bedlam it ish creation of needle noises. cially, in English universities, a man or woman whose duty it is to take care of the rooms and make the beds in college. Female bedmakers were forbidden in Cambridge in 1625, but are now usual. The bed - makers are the women who take care of the rooms; there is about one to cach staircase, that is to say, to every eight rooms. C. A. Bristed, English University, p. 30. bedmate (bed'māt), n. A bedfellow. Shak . bed-molding (bed'molding), n. In arch ., a molding of the cornice of an entablature, situated beneath the corona and immediately above the frieze. Also called bedding -molding. bedotet (bē-dōt'), v. t. [ME., dote .] To make to dote; befool; deceive. For to bedote this queene was her entent. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1547.