begn.[Turk. beg, pronounced bay. Cf. Bey, Begum.] A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.()v. t.[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.)()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.()5. (Old Law) To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.()Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards. (Harrington.)Hence: To beg (one) for a fool, to take him for a fool.()I beg to, is an elliptical expression for I beg leave to; as, I beg to inform you. -- To beg the question, to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument. -- To go a-begging, a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.()()v. i. To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.()I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. (Luke xvi. 3.)n. See Bigha.()