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v. To be of service to; aid.

v. To be of use to; avail.

adj. Having been placed; located.

v. To help, assist.

v. To profit; benefit; serve; avail.

adj. Placed (in a given situation); beset.

adj. Disposed mentally; affected.

adj. Provided; furnished.

v. To take the place of; replace.

v. To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place.

v. To put in peril; to beset.

v. To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail.

To help; assist.

To profit; benefit; serve; avail.

To take the place of.

See bested.

"Even that Englishman who knew Alfred, Bede, Caedmon, as well as he knew Plato, Caesar, Cicero, or Pericles, would be hard bestead were he asked about the great peoples from whom we sprang; the warring of Harold"

besteaded    besteading    besteads   

beset    serve    assist    profit    avail   

omorrow    andcould    spitter    perplext    shame-stricken    haveno    misgave    mortalitie    watchhouse    hind-leg