Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Placed; situated: of things.
  • Placed or circumstanced as to condition, convenience, benefit, and the like; situated: of persons.
  • Disposed mentally; affected: as, “sorrowfully bestad,”
  • Provided; furnished.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective same as defeated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Variant of bestead
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of best.

Etymologies

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best + -ed

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