Beggar \Beg"gar\, n. [OE. beggere, fr. beg.] 1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
2. One who makes it his business to ask alms.
3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
4. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. --Abp. Tillotson.
Beggar \Beg"gar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beggared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beggaring}.] 1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. --Milton.
2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
It beggared all description. --Shak.
A crippled beggar shaking a cup is crying out every bit as much as the man primly carrying a sign asking for contributions to save the rain forests.
Carlinhos, a droopy eyed, barefoot beggar flicked his wrist and said: "They went.
Most Londoners squirm when they encounter a street beggar in the centre of the city.
But Gorbachev stressed that he did not come as a beggar.
Nothing at all? For an intelligent man to wish to be an artist is an honourable ambition, but to suppose that it may be achieved merely by the intelligent application of the will is to suppose, pace the beggar's long experience, that wishes were horses.
"I am motivated every time I think of the alternative, he said. "The alternative would be to go to the streets and become a beggar." Mashile succeeded in a country where apartheid laws and crushing poverty have made black achievers an exception.