BEDLOE (_Augustus_), an eccentric Virginian, an opium-eater, and easily hypnotized, in Edgar Allan Poe's _Tale of the Ragged Mountains_ (1846). BEDOTT (_Widow_). (See HEZEKIAH BEDOTT.) BED'OUINS [_Bed'.winz_], nomadic tribes of Arabia. In common parlance, "the homeless street poor." Thus gutter-children are called "Bedouins." BED'REDEEN' HAS'SAN of Baso'ra, son of Nour'edeen' Ali grand vizier of Basora, and nephew to Schems'edeen' Mohammed vizier of Egypt. His beauty was transcendent and his talents of the first order. When twenty years old his father died, and the sultan, angry with him for keeping from court, confiscated all his goods, and would have seized Bedredeen if he had not made his escape. During sleep he was conveyed by fairies to Cairo, and substituted for an ugly groom (Hunchback) to whom his cousin, the Queen of Beauty, was to have been married. Next day he was carried off by the same means to Damascus, where he lived for ten years as a pastry-cook. Search was made for him, and the search party, halting outside the city of Damascus, sent for some cheese-cakes. When the cheese-cakes arrived, the widow of Nouredeen declared that they must have been made by her son, for no one else knew the secret of making them, and that she herself had taught it to him. On hearing this, the vizier ordered Bedredeen to be seized, "for making cheese-cakes without pepper," and the joke was carried on till the party arrived at Cairo, when the pastry-cook prince was reunited to his wife, the Queen of Beauty.--_Arabian Nights_ ("Nouredeen Ali," etc.). BEDWIN (_Mrs._), housekeeper to Mr. Brownlow. A kind, motherly soul, who loves Oliver Twist most dearly.--C. Dickens, _Oliver Twist_ (1837). BEE OF ATTICA, Soph'oclês the dramatist (B.C. 495-405). The "Athenian Bee" was Plato the philosopher (B.C. 428-347). The Bee of Attica rivalled Æschylus when in the possession of the stage.--Sir W. Scott, _The Drama._ BEEF'INGTON (_Milor_), introduced in _The Rovers._ Casimir is a Polish emigrant, and Beefington an English nobleman exiled by the tyranny of king John.--_Anti-Jacobin._ "Will without power," said the sagacious Casimir, to Milor Beefington, "is like children playing at soldiers."--Macaulay. BE'ELZELBUB (4 _syl_.), called "prince of the devils" (_Matt._ xii. 24), worshipped at Ekron, a city of the Philistines (2 _Kings_ i. 2), and made by Milton second to Satan. One next himself in power and next in crime--Beëlzebub. _Paradise Lost_, i. 80 (1665). BEE'NIE (2 _syl_.), chambermaid at Old St. Ronan's inn, held by Meg Dods.--Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan's Well_ (time, George III.). BEES (_Telling the_), a superstition still prevalent in some rural districts that the bees must be told at once if a death occur in the family, or every swarm will take flight. In Whittier's poem, _Telling the Bees_, the lover coming to visit his mistress sees the small servant draping the hives with black, and hears her chant: