BED 
wbleulares. We may add, that Pompey, in Ids third tri¬ 
umph, brought in beds of gold. The -Romans had aUo 
beds whereon they lludied, and beds whereon the dead 
were carried to the funeral pile. 
B e d-Mo u ld i n g ,f. in architecture, a term tifed for thofe 
members of a cornice which are placed below the coronet. 
Bed of Justice, J. in the former French cuftoms, was 
a throne upon which the king was feated when he went to 
the parliament. 
Bed of a Great Gun,/ A plank laid between the 
cheeks of the carriage, on the middle tranfum, for the 
breech of the gun to reft upon. 
Bed or Stool of a Mortar,/ A thick and ftrong 
planking on which a mortar is placed, hollowed a little to 
receive the breech and millions. 
Bed,/! in mafonry, a courfe or range of ftones; and 
the joint of the bed is the mortar between two ftones, plac¬ 
ed over each other. 
Lords of the Bed-Chamber, in the Britifti court, are 
twelve noblemen who attend in their turns, each a month ; 
during which time they lie in the king’s bed-chamber, and 
wait on him when he dines in private. Their falary is 
ioool. per annum each. 
To Bed, v. a. To go to bed with. To place in bed.— 
She was publicly contracted, ftated as a bride, and fo- 
lemnly bedded ; and, after flte was laid, Maximilian’s am- 
baflador put his leg, ftript naked to the knee, between the 
efpoufal ftieets. Bacon. —To make partaker of the bed.— 
There was a doubt ripped up, whether Arthur was bedded 
with his lady. Bacon. —To fow, or plant in earth.—Lay 
the turf with the grafs-ftde downwards, upon which lay 
fotne of your belt mould to bed your quick in, and lay 
• your quick upon it. Mortimer. —To lay in a place of reft, 
pr fecurity. To lay in order ; to ftratify. 
To Bed, v . n. To cohabit.—If he be married, and bed 
with his wife, and afterwards relapfe, he may poffibly 
fancy that ftie infected him. IVifeman. 
BEDA, commonly called Venerable Bede, one of our 
molt ancient hiftorians, was born in the year 672, in the 
neighbourhood of Weremouth, in the bifliopric of Dur¬ 
ham. He was educated by the abbot Benedict in the mo- 
naft'ery of St. Peter, near the mouth of the river Wyre. 
At the age of nineteen he was ordained deacon, and prieft 
in the year 702. About this time he was invited to Rome 
by pope Sergius ; but there is no (iifticient reafon to be¬ 
lieve that lie accepted the invitation. In the year 731 he 
publiftied his Eccleliaftical Hiftory ; a work of fo much 
merit, notwithftanding the legendary tales it contains, 
that it was alone fufficient to immortalize the author. He 
died in.'735, of a lingering conlumption. He was buried 
in the church of his convent at farrow, but his bones were 
afterwards removed to Durham, and there depolited in 
the fame coffin with thofe of St. Cuthbert. Bede was un¬ 
doubtedly a lingular phenomenon in an ignorant and illi¬ 
terate age. His learning, for the times, was extenfive, 
his application incredible, his piety exemplary, and his 
modefty exceffive. He was univerfally admired, confulted, 
and efteemed, during his life : and his writings are de- 
fervedly coniidered as the foundation of our eccleliaftical 
hiftory. All his works are in Latin. The firft' general 
collection of them appeared at Paris in 1544, in 3 yols. 
folio. They were alfo publiftied at Bal'd in 1563, reprinted 
at'Cologne in 16.12, atrd at the fame place in 1688. Be- 
fides this general collection, there are feveral maiiufcripts 
afcr.bed to him, which are prelerved in the different li¬ 
braries in Oxford and Cambridge. 
To BEDAB'BLE, v. a. [from dabble .] To wet; to be- 
fprinkle. It is generally applied to perfons, in a fenfe in¬ 
cluding inconvenience : 
Never fo weary, never fo in woe, 
Bedabbled' with "the dew, and torn with briars, 
1 can no further crawl, no further go. Shak'efpeare . 
To BEDAG'GLE, v. a. [from daggle .] To bemire; 
*o foil.clothes, by letting them reach the dirt in walking. 
: Vox.LI. No. 106. 
BED ‘845 
BEDA'LK, amarket-town in the North Riding ofYork- 
ftiire, fix miles from Northallerton, eight from Richmond, 
and 220 from London ; it Hands upon a rivulet that runs 
into the Swale, near Gatenby ; but is of note for being 
the thoroughfare of the Roman caufeway, leading from 
Richmond to Barnard Caftle, which, for twenty miles to¬ 
gether, is called Leeming-lane. There is a good charity- 
fchool. Market on Tuefdays. Fairs, Eafter-Tuefday, 
Whit-Tuefday, Old Midfummer-day, Old Michaelmas- 
day, and the laft Monday but one before Chriftmas. All the 
adjacent country abounds in horfe-dealers, here bping the 
belt hunting and road horfes in the world; and tire breed, 
in this and the next county, is fo well known, that, though 
the pedigree of them is not preferved for a fucceffion of 
ages, as it is faid they do in Arabia, yet are their ftallions 
denominated by certain names, that never fail to advance 
the price of a horfe according the reputation of the fire lie 
comes of. 
BEDARRIEUX', a town of France, in the department 
of the Herault, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt 
of Beziers, fituated on the Orbe ; the inhabitants carry on 
a manufacture of druggets, and other woollen fluffs : five 
leagues and a half north of Beziers. Lat. 43. 27. N. Ion. 
20. 50. E. Ferro. 
To BEDASH', v. a. [from dajli.~\ To bemire by throw¬ 
ing dirt; to befpatter ; to wet with throwing water. 
BED AT' (Le), a river of France, which runs into the 
Allier, near Montferand. 
To BEDAWB, v. a. [from dawb.~\ To dawb over ; to 
befiftear ; to foil, with fpreading any vifeous body over it. 
To BEDAZ'ZLE, v. a. [from dazzle .] To make the 
fight dim by too much luftre : 
My miftaken eyes, 
That have been fo bedazzled by the fun, 
That every thing I look on feemeth green. Shakefpcare . 
BED'BURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and electorate of Cologne, on the Erfft: 
fourteen miles weft of Cologne, and twenty nortli-eaft of 
Aix-la-Chapelle. Lat. 51. N. Ion. 24. 6. E. Ferro. 
BED'CHAMBER, f. [from bed and chamber .•] The 
chamber appropriated to reft.—He was now one of the 
bedchamber to the prince. Clarendon. 
BED'CLOTHES,/! [from bed and clothes. It has no 
fingular .] Coverlets fpread over a bed, 
BED'DER, or Bedetter,/. [from bed.'] The nether 
ftone of an oil-mill. 
BED'DING,/! [from bed.'] The materials of a bed 5 
a bed : 
Firft, with affiduous care from winter keep, 
Well fother’d in the ftalls, thy tender flieep ; 
Then fpread with ftraw the bedding of thy fold, 
With fern beneath, to fend the bitter cold. Dryden. 
To BEDECK', v. a. [ from deck . ] To deck; to adorn j 
to grace : 
Thou fhani’ft thy ftiape, thy love, thy wit. 
And ufeft none in that true ule indeed, 
Which Ihould bedeck they ftiape, thy love, thy wit. 
Shakejpeare. 
BEDE'E, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ille and Vilaine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triCt of Montfort: three leagues and a half weft-north- 
weft of Rennes, and one north of Montfort. 
BE'DEHOUSE,/! [from/We, Sax. a prayer, zndhoufe J 
An hofpital or alms-houfe, where the poor people prayed 
for their founders and benefactors. 
BE'DELARY, the precinCt or jurifdiCtion of a beadle. 
BE'DELL (William), a learned prelate, born in Effex, 
in 1570. In 1629, he obtained the bifliopric of Kilmore 
in Ireland. He publiftied a controverfial book againft the 
Roman-catholics, and affifted the archbiffiop of Spalatro 
in finilhing his famous work De Republica Ecclejia 
V/hen the rebellion broke out in Ireland in r641,'’the bi- 
Ihop at.firft did not feel the violence of its effects; the re- 
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