Bestay vs Bestar - What's the difference?
bestay | bestar |
To secure or steady; cause to come to a fixed position or state; bring to a halt or stop.
*1834 , Theodore Sedwick Fay, George Pope Morris, Samuel Woodworth, New-York mirror :
*1874 , Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of state papers, foreign series, of the reign of Elizabeth :
*1940 , Thornwell Jacobs, Red lanterns on St. Michael's :
(archaic) To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to adorn or decorate with, or as with, stars.
As verbs the difference between bestay and bestar
is that bestay is to secure or steady; cause to come to a fixed position or state; bring to a halt or stop while bestar is (archaic) to sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to adorn or decorate with, or as with, stars.bestay
English
Verb
(en verb)- Mid the half-furrowed field bestay the plough, Bid the twin toilers of the yoke go free, And aught that doth thee patient servitude, From closing sabbath to its blest return, [...]
- Hereupon the magistrates of the town cried "Hola, hola, bestay the matter."
- Bestay' thee, ' bestay thee in fighting!
