To receive by begging; to beg (alms, one's food, etc.); in modern Scottish, to solicit gifts on special occasions, esp. on setting up housekeeping…

To ask alms or by way of alms. intransitive. To ask alms; esp. to ask alms habitually, to live by asking alms. Const. absol.; of, from, formerly at…

absol.

In phrase to go a-begged: to go a begging.

intransitive. To seek for gain or advantage in a mean, grasping, or underhand way; to cadge, scrounge. Obsolete.

to go (or have been) a begging. to go about begging. (Cf. begged, adv.)

transitive and intransitive. To beg; to ask.

A beggar's bag. to bear the wallet to be a beggar.

intransitive. To speak in the whining or singsong tone used by beggars; to beg.

intransitive. British regional, Irish English, and U.S. regional (chiefly southern and Chesapeake Bay). To forage, delve; to poke about for; to…

†to turn to bag and wallet: to become a beggar. to give (one) the bag to hold: to engage any one while taking the opportunity to slip away, to…

intransitive. To beg; to live by begging, esp. by passing oneself off as a wounded or disbanded soldier.

intransitive. To beg.

slang. To beg; also in to strike it.

absol. To beg.

intransitive. To beg. rare.

The action of begging or collecting alms; spec. the custom of going round the wealthier households of a parish at Christmas time to beg for money or…

Now slang and English regional. intransitive. To beg, go about begging; to sponge upon. Cf. mumper, n.

intransitive. To go about begging; to sponge, to acquire some advantage by insidious means; also to skulk.

intransitive. To go about as a cadger or pedlar, or on pretence of being one; to go about begging. dialect and slang.

slang. to sit pad: to sit begging by the roadside. Similarly to stand pad. Obsolete.

slang. (See quot. 1860.)

intransitive. To beg or scrounge; to cadge. Often with off, from,on.

intransitive. To beg or importune a person; to sponge (off a person); to ask for charity.

intransitive. To beg. Also occasionally transitive with it: to scrape or scrounge a living.

intransitive. To beg. to pling the stem: to beg on the street. Also transitive: to beg from (a person).

To beg or ‘panhandle’ on the streets. Cf. stem, n.1 6b. U.S. slang.

intransitive. To beg. Now rare.