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n the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man. Shak. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton.

Beset; put in peril. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To stain.

To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud. "Bestarred with anemones." W. Black.

condition; to circumstance; to place. [Only in p. p.] They shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: . . . and curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow.

Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.

The state or quality of being bestial.

To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. Hare.

In a bestial manner.

A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.

sed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

To make still.

action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun. You have so bestirred your valor. Shak. Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Milton.

To storm. Young.

To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. "He bestowed it in a pouch." Sir W. Scott. See that the women are bestowed in safety. Byron.

The act of bestowing; disposal.

One that bestows.

The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view. Chauncy.

To bestride.

Out of one's senses; distracted; mad. [Obs.] Shak.