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noun

Stead n.

1.

Place, or spot, in general. (Obs., except in composition.) "Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon."

2.

Place or room which another had, has, or might have. "Stewards of your steads." "In stead of bounds, he a pillar set."

3.

A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. (R.) "The genial bed, Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead."

4.

A farmhouse and offices. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.) Note: The word is now commonly used as the last part of a compound; as, farmstead, homestead, roadstead, etc.

In stead of, in place of. See Instead.

To stand in stead, or To do stead, to be of use or great advantage. "The smallest act... shall stand us in great stead." "Here thy sword can do thee little stead."

verb

Stead v. t.

1.

To help; to support; to benefit; to assist. "Perhaps my succour or advisement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue." "It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves."

2.

To fill the place of. (Obs.)

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"Stead" Quotes from Famous Books

... of hearing serves you in good stead, and fills up many of your deficiencies. But permit me to point out that your life in Lineland must be deplorably dull. To see nothing but a Point! Not even to be able to contemplate a Straight Line! Nay, not even to know what a Straight Line is! To see, yet to be cut off from those Linear prospects ...

— Flatland • Edwin A. Abbott

... Should I lay down my life in lending thee assistance, When my earth-joys were over, thou wouldst evermore serve me In stead of a father; my faithful thanemen, My trusty retainers, protect thou and care for, Fall I in battle: ...

— Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem • The Heyne-Socin

... Nero was only the son of his wife. But Agrippina was artful enough to manage her indolent and stupid husband just as she pleased; and she soon found means to displace Britannicus, and to raise Nero in his stead, to the highest place, in precedence and honor. She persuaded Claudius to adopt Nero as his own son, as was stated in the last chapter. She obtained a decree of the Senate, approving and confirming this act. She then removed Britannicus ...

— Nero - Makers of History Series • Jacob Abbott

... can crush the proud Down to the meanness of the crowd: And raise the lowest in his stead: But rapid Fortune pulls him down, And snatches his imperial crown, To place, not fix it, on ...

— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus

... of heart, but solely from the love for that little, helpless, love-needing being, whose birth had cost his young wife her life, to whom he had vowed at the bedside of her dead mother to stand in stead of that mother, and never to make her bend under the harsh rule of a step-mother. Gotzkowsky had faithfully fulfilled his vow; he had concentrated all his love on his daughter, who under his careful supervision had increased in strength and beauty, so that ...

— The Merchant of Berlin - An Historical Novel • L. Muhlbach

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