Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: beggar – begun
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beggar (-s, -'s), n. [see beg, v.] (webplay: ashamed, bread, business, charity, lives, poor, prove).
- Mourner; bereaved person; one who has lost a loved one; someone standing in need of comfort.
- Almsman; indigent; mendicant; destitute soul; individual without assets; person with little or no money; one who has no means of temporal support; (see Luke 16:20-22).
- Hungry person; person with little or no food.
- Hungry bird; dependent creature; one who relies on providence for sustenance.
- Supplicant; petitioner; one who asks insistently.
- Commoner; pauper; mundane citizen; ordinary human being; person of the lowest socio-economic status; (see 1 Samuel 2:8).
- Suitor; unrequited devotee; one pursuing romance.
beggar (-ed, -s), v. [see beg, v.] (webplay: body, lives, poverty, prove).
Impoverish; ruin financially; cause one to become poor.
beggary, n. [see beg, v.] (webplay: lives).
Poverty; destitution; privation; poor way of life.
begging, verbal n. [see beg, v.]
Prayer; supplication; imploring; petition for the help of Deity.
begin (began, beginning, begun, -s), v. [OE 'open'.] (webplay: be, become, confirm, create, head, plant, produce, set).
- Commence; start.
- Start to sound; commence making music.
- Embark; enter into; start a phase; show first signs of existence.
- Originate; arise; enter a course; come into existence.
- Perform the first act; embark upon something new; take the first step.
- Happen; befall; occur; transpire; take rise; come to pass; start to take place.
beginning, adv. [see begin, v.]
Commencing; starting.
beginning (-s), verbal n. [see begin, v.]
Commencement; genesis; introduction; opening; prelude; (see Genesis 1:1).
begone, v. [see go, v.]
Leave; depart; vacate; withdraw; go away.
beguile (-d, -ing, -s), v. [see guile, v.] (webplay: day).
- Deceive; delude; mislead; fool; betray; convince by crafty artifice; (see Genesis 3:13).
- Entice; induce; lure; charm; tempt; (see Colossians 2:4).
- Cheat; defraud; dupe; swindle; trick; (see Genesis 29:25).
begun, v. [see begin, v.]