subs. phr. (common).—A skinny, bony, bedfellow; also BEDFELLOW OF BONES.
1611. BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III. III, i. 1. I have an old grim sire to my husband … a BEDFUL OF BONES. Ibid., III. III, iv. 2. Sophocles … was a very old man, as cold as January, a BEDFELLOW OF BONES and doted upon Archippe, a young courtesan.
