n. [ OE. beggere, fr. beg. ] 1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. Abp. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beggared p. pr. & vb. n. Beggaring. ] 1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate. [ 1913 Webster ]

It beggared all description. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Beggary. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of various Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing.
Syn. -- beggar's lice, beggar's-lice, beggar lice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments.
Syn. -- tick trefoil, tick-trefoil, beggar's-lice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Produced or occasioned by beggary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity; -- also called beggar-ticks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the seed of bur marigolds.
Syn. -- spanish needles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and pricky fruits that cling to fur and clothing; -- also called beggar's-ticks.
Syn. -- bur marigold, burr marigold, beggar's-ticks, sticktight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a woman who is a beggar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n. ] 1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Beggarly appearance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beggarly. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 (1691). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zoöl.) Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E. saggard a seggar, seggard a sort of riding surtout, contr. fr. safeguard. ] A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin. [ Written also saggar, sagger, and segger. ] Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]