1. (n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East.

2. (v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

3. (v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

4. (v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

5. (v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.

6. (v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

7. (v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

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