Usually means: Assisted, benefited, or served well.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. bestead: Merriam-Webster
  2. bestead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. bestead: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bestead: Wordnik
  5. bestead: Wiktionary
  6. bestead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. bestead: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Bestead, bestead: Dictionary.com
  9. Bestead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. bestead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Bestead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. bestead: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. bestead: FreeDictionary.org
  14. bestead: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bestead: Legal dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bestead: Easton Bible
  2. BESTEAD: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

(Note: See besteaded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bestead)

verb:  (transitive) To help, assist.
verb:  (transitive) To profit; benefit; serve; avail.
verb:  (transitive) To take the place of; replace.
adjective:  (archaic) Placed (in a given situation); beset.
adjective:  (obsolete) Disposed mentally; affected.
adjective:  (obsolete) Provided; furnished.

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