Beggar

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who makes it his business to ask alms.

II. Beggar ·vt To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

III. Beggar ·noun One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

IV. Beggar ·noun One who is dependent upon others for support;

— a contemptuous or sarcastic use.

V. Beggar ·noun One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.

VI. Beggar ·vt To reduce to beggary; to Impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.

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