stead

The place, position, or function properly or customarily occupied by another.

Advantage; service; purpose.

To be of advantage or service to; benefit.

To place; put; set.

To place or put in a position of danger, difficulty, hardship, or the like; press; bestead.

With up: to replace; fill.

To avail; assist; benefit; serve; bo of service, advantage, or use to.

To stop; stay.

A place; place in general.

Place or room which another had or might have: preceded by in: as, David died, and Solomon reigned in his stead. Hence instead.