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  • English Word Beg Definition To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
  • English Word Beg Definition To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
  • English Word Beg Definition To take for granted; to assume without proof.
  • English Word Beg Definition To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
  • English Word Beg Definition To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
  • English Word Bega Definition See Bigha.
  • English Word Began Definition of Begin
  • English Word Begat Definition of Beget
  • English Word Begem Definition To adorn with gems, or as with gems.
  • English Word Begemmed Definition of Begem
  • English Word Begemming Definition of Begem
  • English Word Beget Definition To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
  • English Word Beget Definition To get (with child.)
  • English Word Beget Definition To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
  • English Word Begetter Definition One who begets; a father.
  • English Word Begetting Definition of Beget
  • English Word Beggable Definition Capable of being begged.
  • English Word Beggar Definition One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
  • English Word Beggar Definition One who makes it his business to ask alms.
  • English Word Beggar Definition One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
  • English Word Beggar Definition One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
  • English Word Beggar Definition To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
  • English Word Beggar Definition To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
  • English Word Beggar's lice Definition 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.
  • English Word Beggar's ticks Definition The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
  • English Word Beggared Definition of Beggar
  • English Word Beggarhood Definition The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
  • English Word Beggaring Definition of Beggar
  • English Word Beggarism Definition Beggary.
  • English Word Beggarliness Definition The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.