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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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826 words match “BEG”

BEG v. 7 definitions

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech. I do beg your good will in this case. Shak. [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus. Matt. xxvii. 58.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

BEGET v. 3 definitions

r sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.

One who begets; a father.

Capable of being begged.

BEGGAR n. 6 definitions

One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.

BEGGAR'S LICE n.

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.

BEGGAR'S TICKS n.

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

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

BEGGARLINESS n.

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

BEGGARLY a. 3 definitions

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.

BEGGARY n. 3 definitions

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

A beggar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

BEGHARD; BEGUARD n. 2 definitions

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.

BEGIN v. 5 definitions

endent 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.

BEGINNING n. 4 definitions

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.