Emily Dickinson Lexicon

beg (-s, begged, begging), v. [origin uncertain] (webplay: alms, ask, beseech, bread, entreat, humility, lives, practice).

1. Request; call for.
2. Appeal; entreat; beseech; implore.
3. Exhort; urge; encourage.
4. Ask; importune; supplicate.
5. Plead humbly for alms; appeal to others for mercy; apply to others for money or free food; (see Mark 10:46).
6. Want; need; wish.
7. Pray for; plead for earnestly; request urgently.