bedevilment (bedevlment)

[ The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevil ment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared. Dickens , Bleak House, viii. bedew (bē-dū'), v. t. [ The most precious tears are those with which heaven bedews the unburied head of a soldier. IMG:content-1836.png:[blocks in formation] My old woman is bedfast . Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, ii. bedfellow (bed'fel"ō), n. [ bedfelow , -felawe ; fellow .] One who shares a bed with another. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows . Shak ., Tempest, ii. 2. bedferet (bed'fer), n. [Early mod. E. also, erroneously, bedphere , bedfere , bedifere , fere , companion: see ferel .] A bedfellow. Her that I mean to choose for my bed - phere . B. Jonson , Epicœne, ii. 3. bed-frame (bed'frām), n. The frame of a bed; a bedstead.