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Beggary
- noun - a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
- the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
Begging
- verb - a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
- ask to obtain free; "beg money and food"
- call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
- dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion"
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"
Begilds
- verb - decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
Begonia
- noun - any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes
Begorra
- unknown - Irish form of 'By God'
Begrave
- - To bury; also, to engrave.
Begrime
- verb - make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
Beguard
- - One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
Beguile
- verb - attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts"
- influence by slyness
Beguine
- noun - (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life
- a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba
- music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance