Bed"rid` (?), Bed"rid`den (?), a. [OE. bedrede, AS. bedreda, bedrida; from bed, bedd, a bed or couch + ridda a rider; cf. OHG. pettiriso, G. bettrise. See Bed, n., and Ride, v. i. ]
Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity.
"Her decrepit, sick, and
bedrid father."
Shak. "The estate of a
bedridden old gentleman."
Macaulay.
© Webster 1913.