Part 1008

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.</def>

<h1>Befriend</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*friend"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Befriended</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Befriending</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.</def>

<blockquote>By the darkness <b>befriended</b>. <i>Longfellow.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Befriendment</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*friend"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Act of befriending.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Befrill</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*frill"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To furnish or deck with a frill.</def>

<h1>Befringe</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*fringe"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe.</def>

<i>Fuller.</i>

<h1>Befuddle</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Be*fud"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Befuddled</er> <tt>(#)</tt>]</wordforms> <def>To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.</def>

<h1>Beg</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Beg</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Turk. <ets>beg</ets>, pronounced <ets>bay</ets>. Cf. <er>Bey</er>, <er>Begum</er>.]</ety> <def>A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.</def>

<h1>Beg</h1> <Xpage=132>

<hw>Beg</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Begged</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Begging</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>beggen</ets>, perh. fr. AS. <ets>bedecian</ets> (akin to Goth. <ets>bedagwa</ets> beggar), <ets>biddan</ets> to ask. (Cf. <er>Bid</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>); or cf. <ets>beghard</ets>, <ets>beguin</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.</def>

<blockquote>I do <b>beg</b> your good will in this case. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>[Joseph] <b>begged</b> the body of Jesus. <i>Matt. xxvii. 58.</i></blockquote>

<note>Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather than earnest, asking; as, I <i>beg</i> your pardon; I <i>beg</i> leave to disagree with you.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.</def>

<blockquote>Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed <b>begging</b> bread. <i>Ps. xxxvii. 25.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make petition to; to entreat; <as>as, to beg a person to grant a favor</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To take for granted; to assume without proof.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Old Law)</fld> <def>To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.</def>

<blockquote>Else some will <b>beg</b> thee, in the court of wards. <i>Harrington.</i></blockquote>

<cs>Hence: <col>To beg (one) for a fool</col>, <cd>to take him for a fool</cd>.</cs>

<cs><col>I beg to</col>, <cd>is an elliptical expression for <i>I beg leave to<i>; as, <i>I beg to<i> inform you.</cd> -- <col>To bag the question</col>, <cd>to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument.</cd> -- <col>To go a-begging</col>, <cd>a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they <i>go a-begging<i>.</cd></cs>