bestead (third-person singular simple present besteads, present participle besteading, simple past besteaded, past participle bestead)
(transitive) To help, assist.
(transitive) To profit; benefit; serve; avail.
• (help; assist): aid, lend a hand; See also help
• (profit; benefit; serve; avail): bestand; See also serve
bestead (third-person singular simple present besteads, present participle besteading, simple past and past participle besteaded)
(transitive) To take the place of; replace.
bestead (not comparable)
(archaic) Placed (in a given situation); beset.
(obsolete) Disposed mentally; affected.
(obsolete) Provided; furnished.
• beasted, bed teas, bed-teas, debates
Source: Wiktionary
Be*stead", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bestead or Bested, also (Obs.) Bestad. In sense 3 imp. also Besteaded.] Etym: [Pref. be- + stead a place.]
1. To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place. [Only in p. p.] They shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: . . . and curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow.
2. To put in peril; to beset.
Note: [Only in p. p.] Chaucer.
3. To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 May 2025
(noun) (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
