Same as Aby. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Turk. beg, pronounced bay. Cf. Bey, Begum. ] A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
I do beg your good will in this case. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ Joseph ] begged the body of Jesus. Matt. xxvii. 58. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather than earnest, asking; as, I beg your pardon; I beg leave to disagree with you. [ 1913 Webster ]
Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Ps. xxxvii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]
Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards. Harrington. [ 1913 Webster ]
To beg (one) for a fool,
I beg to,
To beg the question,
To go a-begging,
v. i. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. [ 1913 Webster ]
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. See Bigha. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Love is begot by fancy. Granville. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who begets; a father. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being begged. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. beggere, fr. beg. ]
v. t.
It beggared all description. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Beggary. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Bot.) The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of
The bur marigold (
n.
n.
n. [ OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n. ]
The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Beggarly. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Beg + -ster. ] A beggar. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
v. i.
Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
When I begin, I will also make an end. 1 Sam. iii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Ye nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Beginning. [ Poetic & Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. [ 1913 Webster ]
A sermon of a new beginner. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
I am . . . the beginning and the ending. Rev. i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]
Mighty things from small beginnings grow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
v. t. To surround as with a girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To encompass; to begird. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ Turk. beglerbeg, fr. beg, pl. begler. See Beg, n. ] The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. (Elec.) A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms, or one thousand megohms. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
interj. [ Be, v. i. + gone, p. p. ] Go away; depart; get you gone. [ 1913 Webster ]
p. p. [ OE. begon, AS. bigān; pref. be- + gān to go. ] Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [ Obs. ] Gower. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ From Michel
n. a natural family of monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America.
v. t. To besmear with gore. [ 1913 Webster ]
imp. & p. p. of Beget. [ 1913 Webster ]
p. p. of Beget. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Pref. be- + grave; akin to G. begraben, Goth. bigraban to dig a ditch around. ] To bury; also, to engrave. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, begrimes. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
adj. being given reluctantly or with displeasure.