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| beggar | (n) a pauper who lives by begging, Syn. mendicant |
| beggar | (v) be beyond the resources of, Example: This beggars description! |
| beggar | (v) reduce to beggary, Syn. pauperise, pauperize |
| beggarly | (adj) marked by poverty befitting a beggar, Syn. mean, Example: a beggarly existence in the slums; a mean hut |
| beggarly | (adj) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt, Syn. mean |
| beggarman | (n) a man who is a beggar |
| beggar-my-neighbor | (n) a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards, Syn. strip-Jack-naked, beggar-my-neighbour |
| beggar-my-neighbor policy | (n) a policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others; used especially of national policy, Syn. beggar-my-neighbour strategy, beggar-my-neighbour policy, beggar-my-neighbor strategy, Example: the United States has pursued a beggar-my-neighbor policy |
| beggar's lice | (n) Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing, Syn. beggar lice |
| beggarweed | (n) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil, Syn. Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
| Beggable | a. Capable of being begged. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beggar | v. t. It beggared all description. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beggar | n. [ OE. beggere, fr. beg. ] |
| Beggarhood | n. The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beggarism | n. Beggary. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| beggar-lice | n.
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| Beggarliness | n. The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beggarly | adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beggarly | a. Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beggar's lice | (Bot.) The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of |