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To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

within my bulk. Turbervile. Barrel bulk. See under Barrel. -- To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the cargo. -- In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. -- Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, h…

See Beggar's ticks.

et must have time to grow, And spread and burnish as his brothers do. Dryden. My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. Herbert.

er." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. [Prov. or Slang, Eng.] Wright.

One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang] "The gentleman cadger." Dickens.

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

on based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of the port, Abborrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson.

an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry.

tely follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.

A musical composition in which the voice begin one after another, at regular intervals, succesively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.…

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.

ower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. Gauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology.

ich it would not exist. Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be. Locke.

To bite or chew impatiently. They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit. Hooker.

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

To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly. Begin his witless note apace to chatter. Spenser.