meaning of beg
1. A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
2. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
3. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
4. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
5. To take for granted; to assume without proof.
6. To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
7. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
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