beg : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: beg	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for beg
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beg v call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!" Synonym(s): beg, implore, pray make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities" Synonym(s): solicit, beg, tap ask to obtain free; "beg money and food" dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion"
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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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.