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Stead   /stɛd/   Listen
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



... Christ in sincerity"—must open its arms with a heartier tone of welcome and brotherhood to the tried and disheartened working-people. Nothing in recent art has stirred me so deeply as a dim copy of Hacker's "Christ and the Magdalene," reproduced by Mr. Stead in the Review of Reviews. The Christ is standing with coarse clothing and toil-worn hands by the work-bench in the carpenter-shop at Nazareth. The shavings are heaped in piles around, him on the ...
— White Slaves • Louis A Banks
... holding the other end of the rod—it struggles up, and would break off altogether if you did not allow it to move. My daughter has since found several springs on the estate, where we have sunk wells. They have stood us in very good stead these ...
— Psychic Phenomena - A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed - in Psychical Research • Edward T. Bennett
... and the unread details which it contained, lost all hold on his attention in an instant, and in their stead, living and burning on his mind, like the Letters of Doom on the walls of Belshazzar, there rose up in judgment against him the last words of a verse in the Gospel of ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins
... Granada, Ferdinand of Arragon and Isabel of Castile send royal greeting. They command me to express their hope that the war is at length concluded; and they offer to the King of Granada such terms of capitulation as a king, without dishonour, may receive. In the stead of this city, which their Most Christian Majesties will restore to their own dominion, as is just, they offer, O king, princely territories in the Alpuxarras mountains to your sway, holding them by oath of fealty to the Spanish crown. To the people of Granada, their Most ...
— Leila or, The Siege of Granada, Book V. • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... unnatural sympathy of those who lived within this District, but hated the sight of their country's flag, runs the blood which courses only under a white surface. While white men were fleeing from this city to join their fortunes with the rebel cause, the returning wave brought black faces in their stead. White enemies went out, black friends came in. As true as truth itself were these poor men to the cause of this imperiled nation. Wherever we have trusted them, they have been true. Why will we not deal justly by them? Why shall we not, ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes


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