Beg (v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
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.
Bega (n.) See Bigha.
Begemmed (imp. & p. p.) of Begem
Begemming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Begem
Begem (v. t.) To adorn with gems, or as with gems.
Begot (imp.) of Beget
Begat () of Beget
Begot (p. p.) of Beget
Begotten () of Beget
Begetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beget
Beget (v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
Beget (v. t.) To get (with child.)
Beget (v. t.) To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
Begetter (n.) One who begets; a father.
Beggable (a.) Capable of being begged.
Beggar (n.) One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
Beggar (n.) One who makes it his business to ask alms.
Beggar (n.) One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
Beggar (n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
Beggared (imp. & p. p.) of Beggar
Beggaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beggar
Beggar (v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
Beggar (v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
Beggarhood (n.) The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
Beggarism (n.) Beggary.
Beggarliness (n.) The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
Beggarly (a.) In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
Beggarly (a.) Produced or occasioned by beggary.
Beggarly (adv.) In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
Beggar's lice () 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 () The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
Beggary (n.) The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
Beggary (n.) Beggarly appearance.
Beggary (a.) Beggarly.
Beggestere (n.) A beggar.
Beghard (n.) Alt. of Beguard
Beguard (n.) 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 1650. Called also Beguins.
Begilded (imp. & p. p.) of Begild
Begilt () of Begild
Begild (v. t.) To gild.
Began (imp. & p. p.) of Begin
Begun () of Begin
Beginning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Begin
Begin (v. i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
Begin (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
Begin (v. t.) To enter on; to commence.
Begin (v. t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.
Begin (n.) Beginning.
Beginner (n.) One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.
Beginning (n.) 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.
Beginning (n.) That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
Beginning (n.) That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
Beginning (n.) Enterprise.
Begirt (imp.) of Begird
Begirded () of Begird
Begirt (p. p.) of Begird
Begirding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Begird
Begird (v. t.) To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.
Begird (v. t.) To surround as with a band; to encompass.
Begirdle (v. t.) To surround as with a girdle.
Begirt (v. t.) To encompass; to begird.
Beglerbeg (n.) The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.
Begnawed (p. p.) of Begnaw
Begnawn () of Begnaw
Begnaw (v. t.) To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.
Begodded (imp. & p. p.) of Begod
Begod (v. t.) To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.
Begone (interj.) Go away; depart; get you gone.
Begone (p. p.) Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone).
Begonia (n.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.
Begore (v. t.) To besmear with gore.
Begot () imp. & p. p. of Beget.
Begotten () p. p. of Beget.
Begrave (v. t.) To bury; also, to engrave.
Begrease (v. t.) To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.
Begrimed (imp. & p. p.) of Begrime
Begriming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Begrime
Begrime (v. t.) To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
Begrimer (n.) One who, or that which, begrimes.
Begrudged (imp. & p. p.) of Begrudge
Begrudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Begrudge
Begrudge (v. t.) To grudge; to envy the possession of.
Beguiled (imp. & p. p.) of Beguile
Beguiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beguile
Beguile (v. t.) To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
Beguile (v. t.) To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.
Beguile (v. t.) To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.
Beguilement (n.) The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.
Beguiler (n.) One who, or that which, beguiles.
Beguiling (a.) Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting.
Beguin (n.) See Beghard.
Beguinage (n.) A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.
Beguine (n.) A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.
Begum (n.) In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.
Begun () p. p. of Begin.
Behalf (n.) Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
Behappen (v. t.) To happen to.
Behaved (imp. & p. p.) of Behave
Behaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Behave