stead /sted/

1. The place, function, role or position of another, as in act in someone's stead
2. Service, avail, advantage, as in stand someone in good stead to be advantageous to someone
3. A space of time (Spenser)
4. Circumstances, case, condition (Spenser)

1. To avail, help, serve (archaic)
2. To fulfil in substitution (Shakespeare steed up)

• whupping
• whuppings
• whups
• why
• whydah
• whydah bird
• whydahs
• whyever
• why-not
• why, so
• WI
• wibble
• wibbled
• wibbles
• wibbling
• wine vinegars
• wine waiter
• wine waiters
• winey
• wing
• wing-and-wing
• wing back
• wing backs
• wingbeat
• wingbeats