A salt of caproic acid.
1. To put in a certain situation or 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. 2. To put in peril; to beset. Note: [Only in p. p.] Chaucer. 3. To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail. Milton.