beg

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To ask for as charity: begged money while sitting in a doorway.
2. v. To ask earnestly for or of; entreat: begged me for help.
3. v. To evade; dodge: a speech that begged the real issues.
4. v. To take for granted without proof: beg the point in a dispute.
5. v. To solicit alms.
6. v. To make a humble or urgent plea.
7. beg off To ask to be released from something, such as an obligation: We were invited to stay for dinner, but we had to beg off.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To ask for or supplicate in charity; ask as alms.
2. To ask for earnestly; crave.
3. To ask as a favor; hence, to beseech; entreat or supplicate with humility or earnestness: as, I begged him to use his influence in favor of my friend.
4. Synonyms Ask, Request. Beg, etc. (see ask); to pray (for), conjure, petition (for).
5. To ask alms or charity; practise begging; live by asking alms.
6. In the game of all-fours, to ask of the dealer a concession of one point to be added to one's count. The dealer must either concede the point or deal out three additional cards to each player. Should the suit originally turned as trump appear after this new deal, three, or fewer if so agreed, must be dealt to each until a different trump appears.
7. n. Same as bey.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
2. v. transitive to plead with someone for help or for a favor
3. v. transitive to assume, in the phrase beg the question
4. v. proscribed to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question
5. n. a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey
6. abbr. knitting beginning

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
2. v. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
3. v. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
4. v. To make petition to; to entreat.
5. v. To take for granted; to assume without proof.
6. v. (Old Law) To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.
7. v. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
2. v. dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted
3. v. call upon in supplication; entreat.
4. v. ask to obtain free