Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of bestick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p.
bestick .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bestick .
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Examples
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Now, theyget a peek at the invoice that is past due and realize that theycan bestuck with the entire bill while the banks ride off into the sunset with the profitable investments in their portfolios intact.
Hang On to Your Wallet! The Government is About to Rescue Us 2008
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The strange incident in the court of Charles IX. of France: he and five other maskers being attired in coats of linen covered with pitch and bestuck with flax to represent hairy savages.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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All the hinder part of its body is cover'd with a most curious blue shining armour, looking exactly like a polish'd piece of steel brought to that blue colour by annealing, all which armour is very thick bestuck with abundance of tapering brisles, such as grow on its back, as is visible enough by the
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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The whole body was cas'd over with a very strong armour, and the belly III was covered likewise with multitudes of small white shining brisles; the legs, horns, head, and middle parts of its body were bestuck with hairs also, but smaller and darker.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Each of these legs were bestuck in every joynt of them with multitudes of small hairs, or (if we respect the proportion they bore to the bigness of the leg) turnpikes, all pointing towards the claws.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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I trust his soul will fly up towards heaven, hit a tree and bestuck there for all eternity? these for a Caption Competition?
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Speaking of New Year's Day, the author says: "This day shall be given many more gifts than shall be asked for; and apples, egges, and oranges shall be lifted to a lofty rate; when a Pomewater bestuck with a few rotten cloves shall be worth more than the honesty of
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
bilby commented on the word bestuck
Thou little tricksy Puck!
With antic toys so funnily bestuck,
Light as the singing bird that wings the air-
(The door! the door! he'll tumble down the stair!)
Thou darling of thy sire!
(Why, Jane, he'll set his pinafore afire!)
- Thomas Hood, 'To My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months'.
November 1, 2008