One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing.

One who asks or begs; bidders and beggars is frequent in P. Plowman, referring to those who made a trade of begging. Obsolete.

= mendicant, n. 1a.

= mendicant, n. 1a. Also (occasionally) as adj.: = mendicant, n. 1.

One who asks or begs (favours, gifts, etc.); an importunate or urgent asker; a beggar.

One who thigs; a beggar, a cadger; an exactor of contributions; one who plants himself on others for assistance; ‘one who draws on others for…

Chiefly English regional (northern) and Scottish. A wandering beggar; a vagrant; a wanderer, a walker; a pedlar.

A beggar; a person who lives by begging. Also figurative.

= mendicant, n.

A (? quasi-religious) mendicant, a vagabond (see hermit, n.).

A leper; a beggar. (In the first quot. the allusion may be to the Lazarus who was raised from the dead: see John xi.)

plural. Beggars; camp-followers.

A beggar.

A cant name for a beggar born; also used as a term of reproach or insult (cf. beggar, n. 6a).

A beggar.

A professional beggar.

a (professional) beggar of ragged and dishevelled appearance, esp. one who feigns insanity (cf. Abraham man, n.).

One who lives upon alms; a beggar. Also figurative.

A beggar, a mendicant; a person who sponges on others.

A strolling minstrel or beggar; a vagabond. Scottish. Obsolete exc. Historical.

British regional and Irish English. A person who solicits for something, esp. habitually; a beggar. Now rare.

A person who asks to be given something, as a favour, gift, permission, etc.; a suppliant; spec. (now archaic) a person who asks for alms, a beggar.

in same sense.

North American. = progger, n.1 Obsolete.

one who ‘shools’.

One who goes about begging or getting his living by questionable means.

U.S. (originally slang). A beggar.

see tired Tim at tired, adj.1 1c.

Originally in Jewish usage. A pauper, a beggar; an idler. More generally: a person of little worth, a fool, a loser, a jerk.

A beggar.

A person who has an artificial leg, esp. a wooden one. Also (slang): a beggar.

One who ‘touches’ another for money; a beggar. Cf. tap, v.1 3. slang.

In France, a beggar, vagrant.