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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beg \Beg\, v. i. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. --Luke xvi. 3. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beg \Beg\, n. [Turk. beg, pronounced bay. Cf {Bey}, {Begum}.] A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beg \Beg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Begged}; p. pr & vb n. {Begging}.] [OE. beggen, perh. fr AS bedecian (akin to Goth. bedagwa beggar), biddan to ask (Cf. {Bid}, v. t.); or cf beghard, beguin.] 1. 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. Note: Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather than earnest, asking; as I beg your pardon; I beg leave to disagree with you 2. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house. Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. --Ps. xxxvii 25. 3. To make petition to to entreat; as to beg a person to grant a favor. 4. To take for granted; to assume without proof. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: beg v 1: call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!" [syn: {implore}, {pray}] 2: make a solicitation or entreaty for something request urgently [syn: {solicit}, {tap}] 3: ask to obtain free as of money From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: BEG {Back End Generator} From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Beg That the poor existed among the Hebrews we have abundant evidence (Ex. 23:11; Deut. 15:11), but there is no mention of beggars properly so called in the Old Testament. The poor were provided for by the law of Moses (Lev. 19:10; Deut. 12:12; 14:29). It is predicted of the seed of the wicked that they shall be beggars (Ps. 37:25; 109:10). In the New Testament we find not seldom mention made of beggars (Mark 10:46; Luke 16:20, 21; Acts 3:2), yet there is no mention of such a class as vagrant beggars, so numerous in the East. "Beggarly," in Gal. 4:9, means worthless. From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given Who is that father? A mendicant, child, Haggard, morose, and unaffable -- wild! See how he glares through the bars of his cell! With Citizen Mendicant all is not well Why did they put him there father? Because Obeying his belly he struck at the laws. His belly? Oh well he was starving, my boy -- A state in which doubtless, there's little of joy. No bite had he eaten for days, and his cry Was "Bread!" ever "Bread!" What's the matter with pie? With little to wear, he had nothing to sell To beg was unlawful -- improper as well Why didn't he work? He would even have done that But men said: "Get out!" and the State remarked: "Scat!" I mention these incidents merely to show That the vengeance he took was uncommonly low Revenge, at the best, is the act of a Siou, But for trifles -- Pray what did bad Mendicant do? Stole two loaves of bread to replenish his lack And tuck out the belly that clung to his back Is that _all_ father dear? There's little to tell: They sent him to jail, and they'll send him to -- well The company's better than here we can boast, And there's -- Bread for the needy, dear father? Um -- toast. Atka Mip
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