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bestow (3 not pre-S.; 4 with ‘of’ and ‘to’ only S.)
1. to give in marriage AYL. V. iv. 7 “You will bestow her on Orlando here?”
2. to lay out (money) 2H4 V. v. 18; to spend (time) Cæs. V. v. 61 “bestow thy time with me?”
3. refl. to behave oneself Gent. III. i. 87, AYL. IV. iii. 88, John III. i. 225, 2H4 II. ii. 186.
4. to confer as a gift (with “of”) Tw.N. III. iv. 2 “what bestow of him?,” Cor. II. iii. 215 (with dative or “to”) Tit. IV. ii. 165, Lr. II. i. 128.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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