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Beggar : (noun)
1: a pauper who lives by begging [syn: mendicant]
(verb)
1: be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!"
2: reduce to beggary [syn: pauperize, pauperise]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Beggar : \Beg"gar\, n. [OE. beggere, fr. beg.]
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 what he does not prove. --Abp.
Tillotson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Beggar : \Beg"gar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beggared; p. pr. & vb.
n. Beggaring.]
1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared
himself. --Milton.
2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
It beggared all description. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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BEGGAR. One who obtains his livelihood by asking alms. The laws of several
of the states punish begging as an offence.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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