a. Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
And thus it behooved Christ to suffer. Luke xxiv. 46. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Advantage; behoof. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
It shall not be to his behoove. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Advantageous; useful; profitable. [ Archaic ] --
n. [ Allied to heave, hove. ] A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.
n. [ a trademark. ] a kind of vacuum cleaner. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
v. t. to clean with a vacuum cleaner. [ slang ]