v. [f. BE- 1 and 4 + STICK v.] Chiefly in pa. pple. bestuck.
1. trans. To stick about, to cover all over; to bedeck, adorn. Also fig.
1623. H. Holland, in Shaks. Wks. (1st folio), Pref. Verses. That coffin now besticke those bayes, which crown’d him Poet first.
1698. Fryer, in Phil. Trans., XX. 340. The Rocks … are bestuck with Oyster-Shells.
1838. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1871), I. 117. Coats of linen covered with pitch and bestuck with flax.
2. To pierce through, transfix.
1667. Milton, P. L., XII. 536. Truth shall retire, Bestuck with slandrous darts.
1823. Lamb, Elia (1860), 106. No emblem is so common as … the bestuck and bleeding heart.
