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To streak.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

ween the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

imp. & p. p. of Bestride.

p. p. of Bestrew.

imp. & p. p. Bestick.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars. Milton.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.

Having the form or structure of asbestus.

Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.

Asbestic.

A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

To bestow improperly.

The act of misbestowing.

The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and C. latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.

A female dancer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

Obtainable; to be got at. The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay.

To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses: