Bestead
Bestead ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Prefix be- + stead a place.]
1.
To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place. [Obsolete; Only in p. p.]
They shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:... and curse their king and their God.
Many far worse bestead than ourselves.
[Only in p. p.]
2.
To put in peril; to beset. — Chaucer
3.
To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail. — Milton