Hypertext Webster Gateway: "begging"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Beg \Beg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Begged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Begging}.] [OE. beggen, perh. fr. AS. bedecian (akin to
Goth. bedagwa beggar), biddan to ask. (Cf. {Bid}, v. t.); or
cf. beghard, beguin.]
1. To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to
beseech.

I do beg your good will in this case. --Shak.

[Joseph] begged the body of Jesus. --Matt. xxvii.
58.

Note: Sometimes implying deferential and respectful, rather
than earnest, asking; as, I beg your pardon; I beg
leave to disagree with you.

2. To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or
from house to house.

Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
seed begging bread. --Ps. xxxvii.
25.

3. To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to
grant a favor.

4. To take for granted; to assume without proof.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

begging
n : a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
by an apparently penniless person) [syn: {beggary}, {mendicancy}]

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