the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A madman. See bedlam, n., 4.
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n. an archaic term for a lunatic
Word Usage
"Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor."