Beg
- n. A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
- v. t. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
- v. t. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
- v. t. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
- v. t. To take for granted; to assume without proof.
- v. t. To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.