Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Beg

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | Download

Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Beg


Subjects in this Topic:

(1):

(v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

(2):

(n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

(3):

(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

(4):

(v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

(5):

(v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

(6):

(v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.

(7):

(v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.