- (n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To ask for as a charity, especially 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.i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
- (v.t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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