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The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.

Beggary. [R.]

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

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.

The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

A beggar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in

To gild. B. Jonson.

e or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.

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. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.

To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.

To surround as with a girdle.

To encompass; to begird. Milton.

The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.

To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak.

To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [Obs.] "Begodded saints." South.

A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms, or one thousand megohms.

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

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.