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Word Meanings - BEGGESTERE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A beggar. Chaucer.

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  • BEGGARLY
    1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
  • BEGGAR
    1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument
  • BEGGAR'S TICKS
    The bur marigold and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
  • 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.
  • BEGGARLINESS
    The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
  • BEGGARISM
    Beggary.
  • BEGGARHOOD
    The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
  • BEGGARY
    1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. 2. Beggarly appearance. The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray. Syn. -- Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.
  • BULLBEGGAR
    Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort .
  • COUPLE-BEGGAR
    One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.

 

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