a title of honor in turkey and in some other parts of the east; a bey.-to ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.-to ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.-to make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.-to take for granted; to assume without proof.-to ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.-to ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.