bestick

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BESTICK', verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive bestuck. [be and stick.] To stick over, as with sharp points; to mark, by infixing points or spots here and there. Truth shall retire, bestuck with slanderous darts.
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