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English Dictionary: stead	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stead n the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" Synonym(s): stead, position, place, lieu
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stead \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 place of. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stead \Stead\, n. [OE. stede place, AS. stede; akin to LG. & D. stede, OS. stad, stedi, OHG. stat, G. statt, st[84]tte, Icel. sta[edh]r, Dan. sted, Sw. stad, Goth. sta[?]s, and E. stand. [fb]163. See {Stand}, and cf. {Staith}, {Stithy}.] 1. Place, or spot, in general. [Obs., except in composition.] --Chaucer. Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. --Spenser. 2. Place or room which another had, has, or might have. [bd]Stewards of your steads.[b8] --Piers Plowman. In stead of bounds, he a pillar set. --Chaucer. 3. A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [R.] The genial bed, Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead. --Dryden. 4. A farmhouse and offices. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Note: The word is now commonly used as the last part of a compound; as, farmstead, homestead, readstead, etc. {In stead of}, in place of. See {Instead}. {To stand in stead}, [or] {To do stead}, to be of use or great advantage. The smallest act . . . shall stand us in great stead. --Atterbury. Here thy sword can do thee little stead. --Milton.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Stead, NM Zip code(s): 88438