a. north. dial. and Sc. [f. BED sb. + FAST a. Cf. OE. legerbedde fest buried; and MDu. beddevass bedfast.] Confined to bed.
a. 1639. Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot., VI. (1677), 341. Farnherst lying bedfast at the time in Aberdene.
1796. Burns, Lett. (Globe ed.), 564. I have been ailing, sometimes bedfast.
1863. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia’s L., I. 30. My old woman is bed-fast.
