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

Surrounded with happiness or prosperity. [Obs.] Fair and rich and young and wel-begone. Chaucer.

Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.

Stand off, or begone. [Obs.] Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.

Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come ~; begone; take ~. And the Lord said . . . Away, get thee down. Exod. xix. 24.

A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation. An interjection implies a meaning which it would require a whole grammatical sentence to expound, and it may be regarded as the rudiment of such a sentence. But it is a confusion of thought to rank it…

ss. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker.

Away; begone; -- a command to depart.

xpressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off. Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools ! Shak. Out upon or on! equivalent to "shame upon!" "away with!" as, out upon you!

Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly. Presto! begone! 'tis here again. Swift.

Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.

Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

ng life, courage, or fire. A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. Shak.