2. Verb. (third-person singular of beggar) ¹
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Definition of Beggars
1. beggar [v] - See also: beggar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beggars
Literary usage of Beggars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"And these beggars were in general by no means such as from age or bodily infirmities
were unable by their labor to earn their livelihood ; but they were, ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"Little white beggars—well, that's an idea! Then perhaps you can tell so we'll
all understand, What these little white beggars come begging for here; ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"THE JOLLY beggars Perhaps we may venture to say that the most strictly poetical
of all his "poems" is one which does not appear in Currie's edition, ..."
4. Auld lang syne by Friedrich Max Müller (1898)
"beggars OFTEN when I had related to my friends some of my painful experiences
with beggars and they laughed at me, " Wait," I said, "I shall have my revenge ..."
5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"The jargon used by beggars, thieves, gipsies, and vagrants. The same as CANT,
suhs., sense i, ... Belonging to the jargon of thieves and beggars. 1592. ..."
6. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"beggars IN ENGLAND. EVEN as late as the end of the sixteenth century Gifford
supposes beggars who were diseased or infected used to go about with a clap ..."
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