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ˈbedfast, a. north. dial. and Sc. [f. bed n. + fast a. Cf. OE. legerbedde fest buried; and MDu. beddevass bedfast.] Confined to bed.
a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1677) 341 Farnherst lying bedfast at the time in Aberdene. 1796Burns Lett. (Globe ed.) 564, I have been ailing, sometimes bedfast. 1863Mrs. Gaskell Sylvia's L. I. 30 My old woman is bed-fast. |