beggary : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: beggary	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for beggary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beggary n a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) Synonym(s): beggary, begging, mendicancy the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" Synonym(s): beggary, mendicancy, mendicity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, a. Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beggary \Beg"gary\, n. [OE. beggerie. See {Beggar}, n.] 1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. 2. Beggarly appearance. [R.] The freedom and the beggary* of the old studio. --Thackeray. Syn: Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.