Index of English words, starting with "be"

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

(1) - Beget (v. t.) To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.
(2) - Beget (v. t.) To get (with child.)
(3) - Beget (v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

(1) - Begetter (n.) One who begets; a father.

(1) - Beggar (v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
(2) - Beggar (v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
(3) - Beggar (n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
(4) - Beggar (n.) One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
(5) - Beggar (n.) One who makes it his business to ask alms.
(6) - Beggar (n.) One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.