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A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves. tramps, or beggars.

One who cants or whines; a beggar.

Placed in a caroche. [Obs.] Beggary rides caroched. Massenger.

efactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent. What charitable men afford to beggars. Shak.

which a clack valve works. -- Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. Shak. Clack door (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve. -- Clack valve (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when rais…

cotton with another. Swift. Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion Sir W. Scott.

To join in wedlock; to marry. [Colloq.] A parson who couples all our beggars. Swift.

n in infancy. He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. Glanvill.

of the duties and decorums of his station. Hallam. If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom. Shak.

ken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. "Beggary or decrepit age." Milton. Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley.

A small copper coin of insignificant value. My dukedom to a beggarly denier. Shak.

ved; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode. He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. 1. Sam. ii. 8. Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed.

sometimes with up. The miser earths his treasure, and the thief, Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon. Young. Why this in earthing up a carcass R. Blair.

One who fogs; a pettifogger. [Obs.] A beggarly fogger. Terence in English(1614)

A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.

A beggar. [Obs.]

Having no meat; without food. "Leave these beggars meatless." Sir T. More.