Beg: alternatives and connections

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

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To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

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A pet; a darling.

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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…

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To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…

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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrub…

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To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.

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of Plead

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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

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The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

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To carry, as a burden.

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To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its p…

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To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

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To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; t…

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To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.

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A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby comm…

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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

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To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.

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The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

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The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

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One who canvasses.

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One who canvasses.

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly b…

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See Pry.

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To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

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To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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