Emily Dickinson Lexicon

beggar (-s, -'s), n. [see beg, v.] (webplay: ashamed, bread, business, charity, lives, poor, prove).

1. Mourner; bereaved person; one who has lost a loved one; someone standing in need of comfort.
2. 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).
3. Hungry person; person with little or no food.
4. Hungry bird; dependent creature; one who relies on providence for sustenance.
5. Supplicant; petitioner; one who asks insistently.
6. Commoner; pauper; mundane citizen; ordinary human being; person of the lowest socio-economic status; (see 1 Samuel 2:8).
7. Suitor; unrequited devotee; one pursuing romance.