Definition of Besteads

1. Verb. (third-person singular of bestead) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Besteads

1. bestead [v] - See also: bestead

Lexicographical Neighbors of Besteads

bestad
bestadde
bestain
bestained
bestains
bestand
bestar
bestarred
bestarring
bestars
bestatin
bestay
bestead
besteaded
besteading
besteads (current term)
besteal
bestealing
besteals
bested
bestep
bestest
bestial
bestialise
bestialities
bestialization
bestialize
bestialized
bestializes

Literary usage of Besteads

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A short history of the English people by John Richard Green (1874)
"Its pleasant pastures, its black-timbered besteads, its prim little townships looking down on inlets of purple ', were then but a wild waste of heather and ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"But wherein besteads me that? My limbs are fetter'd. Were I but so light, That I each hundred years might move one inch, I had set forth already on this ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1842)
"... extends not to the plan and materials of construction of the rooms, I water-closets, besteads, furniture, table-service, doors, latches and —• locks. ..."

4. The Christian Herald by John Edwards Caldwell (1816)
"... interest and usefulness to this system of instruction,—such an ardent desire to make it subservient to the besteads,—such discernment, accompanied with ..."

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