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bestead
1[ bih-sted ]
verb (used with object)
, be·stead·ed, be·stead·ed or be·stead, be·stead·ing.
- to help; assist; serve; avail.
bestead
2[ bih-sted ]
adjective
- Archaic. placed or situated, often unfavorably or in difficulty.
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There was hardly to be found in all Southern Tennessee a more contented, shiftless, ill-bestead family than theirs.
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She said presently: Habundia, thou seest I am hard bestead; give me some good rede thereto.
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Thus, on all hands, I seemed to myself as sore bestead as ever man was, and on no side saw any hope of succour.
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Then were they all three on foot, and ever they saw the hart afore them passing weary and hard bestead.
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But Joseph and Hyrum were harder bestead than ever I have been; and bolder men to boot.
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