Webster's Dictionary 1828

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BEGGED

BEG'GED, participle passive Entreated; supplicated; asked in charity.

866

BEGGING

BEG'GING, participle present tense Asking alms; supplicating; assuming without proof.BEG'GING, noun The act of soliciting alms; the practice of asking alms; as, he lives by begging

867

BEGHARDS

BEGHARDS'BEGILT', adjective Gilded.

868

BEGIN

BEGIN', verb intransitivepreterit tense began; participle passive begun. [Latin genero, gigno; Heb.to make ready, to adapt, prepare, establish.]1. To have an original or first e...

869

BEGINNER

BEGIN'NER, noun The person who begins; he that gives an original; the agent who is the cause; an author.1. One who first enters upon any art, science or business; one who is in ...

870

BEGINNING

BEGIN'NING, participle present tense First entering upon; commencing; giving rise or original; taking rise or origin.BEGIN'NING, noun The first cause; origin.I am the beginning ...

871

BEGINNINGLESS

BEGIN'NINGLESS, adjective That hath no beginning. [A bad word and not used.]

872

BEGIRD

BEGIRD, verb transitive begurd. preterit tense begirt, begirded; participle passive begirt. [be and gird.]1. To bind with a band or girdle.2. To surround; to inclose; to encompa...

873

BEGIRDED

BEGIRD'EDBEGIRD'ING, participle present tense Binding with a girdle; surrounding; besieging.

874

BEGIRT

BEGIRT, participle passive Bound with a girdle; surrounded; inclosed; besieged.

875

BEGLERBEG

BEG'LERBEG, noun [See Beg.] The governor of a province in the Turkis empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier. Each has three ensigns or staves, trimmed with a horse tail, to...

876

BEGNAW

BEGNAW', verb transitive benaw'. To bite or gnaw, to eat away; to corrode; to nibble.

877

BEGONE

BEGONE. Go away; depart. These two words have been improperly united. Be retains the sense of a verb, and gone, that of a participle.

878

BEGORED

BEGO'RED, adjective [be and gore.] Besmeared with gore.

879

BEGOT

BEGOT', BEGOT'TEN, participle passive of get. Procreated; generated.

880

BEGOTTEN

BEGOT', BEGOT'TEN, participle passive of get. Procreated; generated.

881

BEGRAVE

BEGRA'VE, verb transitive To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Not used.]

882

BEGREASE

BEGRE'ASE, verb transitive s as z. [be and grease.] To soil or daub with grease, or other oily matter.

883

BEGRIME

BEGRI'ME, verb transitive [be and grime.] To soil with dirt deep-impressed, so that the natural hue cannot easily be recovered.

884

BEGRIMED

BEGRI'MED, participle passive Deeply soiled.

885

BEGRUDGE

BEGRUDGE, verb transitive begrudj'. [See Grudge.] To grudge; to envy the possession of.

886

BEGUARDS

BEGUARDS', noun A religious order of St. Francis in Flanders, established at Antwerp in 1228, and so named from St. Begghe, their patroness. They at first employed themselves in...

887

BEGUILE

BEGUI'LE, verb transitive begi'le. [be and guile.] To delude; to deceive; to impose on by artifice or craft.The serpent beguiled me and I did eat Genesis 3:13.1. To elude by cra...

888

BEGUILED

BEGUI'LED, participle passive Deluded; imposed on; misled by craft; eluded by stratagem; passed pleasingly.

889

BEGUILER

BEGUI'LER, noun He or that which beguiles or deceives.

890

BEGUILING

BEGUI'LING, participle present tense Deluding; deceiving by craft; eluding by artifice, amusing.

891

BEGUILTY

BEGUIL'TY, verb transitive To render guilty. A barbarous word.]