Bed

{bed) [AS., bedd]. The couch or support on which the body may rest in sleep; usually a mattre of straw, hair, or similar substance. B., Air, a mattre of rubber or leather that can be inflated with air. B.-bug, an apterous insect, Cimex lectularius, that infests filthy bedsteads, and at times is parasitic upon the human body. B.- pan, a large shallow ve el for receiving the alvine discharges of bedridden patients. B.-rest, an apparatus for propping up patients in bed. B. -ridden, confined to bed. B.-sore, a sore produced on any part of the body by prolonged pre ure against the bed, or by trophic changes in paralyzed parts. B., Water, a rubber mattre containing water; it is used to prevent the formation of bed-sores. 142