Stead, v. t. 1. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
Perhaps my succour or advisement meet,
Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue. Spenser.
It nothing steads us
To chide him from our eaves. Shak.
2. To fill the place of. Shak.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.