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Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication. In behalf of his mistress's beauty. Sir P. Sidney. Against whom he had contracted some prejudice in behalf of his nation. Clarendon. In behalf of, in the interest of. -- On behalf of, on account of; on the part of.

Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use. No mean recompense it brings To your behoof. Milton.

Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [Obs.] Udall.

Advantage; behoof. [Obs.] It shall not be to his behoove. Gower.

Advantageous; useful; profitable. [Archaic] -- Be*hoove"ful*ly, adv. -- Be*hoove"ful*ness, n. [Archaic]

An abode; a cottage. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor. Steele.

Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent.

In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.

One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are. Jer. Taylor.

Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit. Men have no right to what is not for their benefit. Burke.

e or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

ablished for best, and not to be mended." Milton. -- To get the best of, to gain an advantage over, whether fairly or unfairly. -- To make the best of. (a) To improve to the utmost; to use or dispose of to the greatest advantage. "Let there be freedom to carry their commodities where they can make the best of them."…

Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.

A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.

The second branch of a stag's horn.

Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.

Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. In the blossom of my youth. Massinger.