a. [f. BED sb. + -LESS.] Without a bed, unprovided with a bed.
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 13 Oct., 5/4. We were branded and ticketed—we bedless and supperless wanderers—as sojourners at the ‘States.’
1870. R. Anderson, Missions Amer. Board, IV. xlii. 413. The people seem to be almost bedless.
Hence, Bedlessness.
1861. Sala, Tw. round Clock, 7. Were it winter, our bedlessness would be indefensible.
