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bestick, v.|bɪˈstɪk|
[f. be- 1 and 4 + stick v.]
Chiefly in pa. pple. bestuck.
1. trans. To stick about, to cover all over; to bedeck, adorn. Also fig.
1623H. Holland in Shaks. Wks. (1st folio) Pref. Verses, That coffin now besticke those bayes, Which crown'd him Poet first. 1698Fryer in Phil. Trans. XX. 340 The Rocks..are bestuck with Oyster-Shells. 1838Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1871) I. 117 Coats of linen covered with pitch and bestuck with flax.
2. To pierce through, transfix.
1667Milton P.L. xii. 536 Truth shall retire, Bestuck with slandrous darts. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 106 No emblem is so common as..the bestuck and bleeding heart. |