(definition) by Webster 1913 Thu Jan 19 2006 at 7:32:10

Tom o' Bed"lam (?).

Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, Eng.; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.

 

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