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n. [ Turk. beg, pronounced bay. Cf. Bey, Begum. ] A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begged p. pr. & vb. n. Begging. ] [ OE. beggen, perh. fr. AS. bedecian (akin to Goth. bedagwa beggar), biddan to ask. (Cf. Bid, v. t.); or cf. beghard, beguin. ] 1. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do beg your good will in this case. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Joseph ] begged the body of Jesus. Matt. xxvii. 58. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather than earnest, asking; as, I beg your pardon; I beg leave to disagree with you. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Ps. xxxvii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To take for granted; to assume without proof. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Old Law) To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for. [ 1913 Webster ]

Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards. Harrington. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence:
To beg (one) for a fool, to take him for a fool. [ 1913 Webster ]

I beg to, is an elliptical expression for I beg leave to; as, I beg to inform you. --
To beg the question, to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument. --
To go a-begging, a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To Beg, Ask, Request. To ask (not in the sense of inquiring) is the generic term which embraces all these words. To request is only a polite mode of asking. To beg, in its original sense, was to ask with earnestness, and implied submission, or at least deference. At present, however, in polite life, beg has dropped its original meaning, and has taken the place of both ask and request, on the ground of its expressing more of deference and respect. Thus, we beg a person's acceptance of a present; we beg him to favor us with his company; a tradesman begs to announce the arrival of new goods, etc. Crabb remarks that, according to present usage, “we can never talk of asking a person's acceptance of a thing, or of asking him to do us a favor.” This can be more truly said of usage in England than in America. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See Bigha. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begemmed p. pr. & vb. n. Begemming. ] To adorn with gems, or as with gems. [ 1913 Webster ]

Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Begot (Archaic) Begat p. p. Begot, Begotten p. pr. & vb. n. Begetting. ] [ OE. bigiten, bigeten, to get, beget, AS. begitan to get; pref. be- + gitan. See Get, v. t. ] 1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To get (with child.) [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love is begot by fancy. Granville. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who begets; a father. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being begged. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. beggere, fr. beg. ] 1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. Abp. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beggared p. pr. & vb. n. Beggaring. ] 1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate. [ 1913 Webster ]

It beggared all description. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Beggary. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of various Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing.
Syn. -- beggar's lice, beggar's-lice, beggar lice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments.
Syn. -- tick trefoil, tick-trefoil, beggar's-lice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. “A bankrupt, beggarly fellow.” South. “A beggarly fellowship.” Swift. “Beggarly elements.” Gal. iv. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Produced or occasioned by beggary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity; -- also called beggar-ticks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the seed of bur marigolds.
Syn. -- spanish needles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and pricky fruits that cling to fur and clothing; -- also called beggar's-ticks.
Syn. -- bur marigold, burr marigold, beggar's-ticks, sticktight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a woman who is a beggar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n. ] 1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Beggarly appearance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beggarly. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Beg + -ster. ] A beggar. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begilded or Begilt ] To gild. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Began Begun p. pr. & vb. n. Beginning ] [ AS. beginnan (akin to OS. biginnan, D. & G. beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. √31. See Gin to begin. ] 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. “Tears began to flow.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

When I begin, I will also make an end. 1 Sam. iii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To enter on; to commence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To commence; originate; set about; start. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Beginning. [ Poetic & Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sermon of a new beginner. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am . . . the beginning and the ending. Rev. i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is begun; a rudiment or element. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mighty things from small beginnings grow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Enterprise. “To hinder our beginnings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Begirt Begirded; p. p. Begirt; p. pr. & vb. n. Begirding. ] [ AS. begyrdan (akin to Goth. bigairdan); pref. be- + gyrdan to gird. ] 1. To bind with a band or girdle; to gird. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To surround as with a band; to encompass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surround as with a girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To encompass; to begird. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Turk. beglerbeg, fr. beg, pl. begler. See Beg, n. ] The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ p. p. Begnawed (R.) Begnawn ] [ AS. begnagan; pref. be- + gnagan to gnaw. ] To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode. [ 1913 Webster ]

The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begodded. ] To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [ Obs. ] “Begodded saints.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Elec.) A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms, or one thousand megohms. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

interj. [ Be, v. i. + gone, p. p. ] Go away; depart; get you gone. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. [ OE. begon, AS. bigān; pref. be- + gān to go. ] Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [ Obs. ] Gower. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Michel Begon, a promoter of botany. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America.
Syn. -- family Begoniaceae, begonia family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To besmear with gore. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Beget. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Beget. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. be- + grave; akin to G. begraben, Goth. bigraban to dig a ditch around. ] To bury; also, to engrave. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begrimed p. pr. & vb. n. Begriming. ] To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, begrimes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begrudged p. pr. & vb. n. Begrudging. ] To grudge; to envy the possession of. [ 1913 Webster ]