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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
advantage, avail, behalf, benefit, benison, blessing, boon, convenience, gain, good, interest, percentage, point, profit, service, use, value, welfare, well-being, world of good, worth
Dictionary Results for behoof:
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Behoof \Be*hoof"\, n. [OE. to bihove for the use of, AS. beh?f
   advantage, a word implied in beh?fl[imac]c necessary; akin to
   Sw. behof, Dan. behov, G. behuf, and E. heave, the root
   meaning to seize, hence the meanings "to hold, make use of."
   See Heave, v. t.]
   Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.
   [1913 Webster]

         No mean recompense it brings
         To your behoof.                          --Milton.
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2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
BEHOOF. As a word of discourse, Signifies need, (egestas, necessitas, 
indigentia.) It comes from behoove, (Sax. behoven,) to need or have need of. 
In a secondary sense, which is the law sense of the word, it signifies use, 
service, profit, advantage, (interesse, opus.) It occurs in conveyances of 
land in fee simple. 



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