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by extreme parfimony, faved thirty-four pounds out of a 
beggarly fellowfliip. Swift. 
Beggarly, adv. Meanly; defpicably ; indigently. 
BEG'GARY,yi Indigence; poverty in the utmoft de¬ 
gree.— On he brought me into fo bare a houfe, that it was 
t he picture of miferable happinefs and rich beggary. Sidney. 
While I am a beggar, I will rail. 
And fay there is no fin but to be rich : 
And, being rich, my virtue then (hall be 
To lay there is no vice but beggary. Shahefpeare. 
BEGH'NI, a.town of Africa, in the kingdom of Tunis. 
To BEGIN', v. n. I began , or begun •, I have begun. \be- 
ginnan, Sax. from be or by to, and gangan, gaan, or gan, 
to go.] To enter upon fomething new : applied to perfons. 
—Begin every day to repent; not that thou ffiouldeft at all 
defer it; but all that is pall ought to feem little to thee, 
feeing it is fo in itfelf. Begin the next day with the fame 
zeal, fear, and humility, as if thou hadft never begun be¬ 
fore. Taylor. —To commence any aftion or date ; to do the 
firlt aft, or fird part of an aft; to make the fird fiep from 
not doing to doing.—They began at the ancient men which 
were before the houfe. Ezekiel. 
Rapt into future times, the bard begun , 
A virgin fliall conceive. Pope. 
To enter upon exidence; as, the world began ; the prac¬ 
tice began : 
I am as free as nature fird made man, 
Ere the bafe laws of fervitude began. 
When wild in woods the noble favage ran. 'Dryden. 
To have its original: 
And thus the hard and dubborn race of man 
From animated rock and dint began. Blackmore. 
To take rife; to commence. To. come into aft.—Judg¬ 
ment mud begin at the houfe of God. i Peter. 
To Begin, v. a. To do the fird aft of any tiling; to 
pafs from not doing to doing, by the fird aft_They have 
been awaked, by thefe awful fcenes, to begin religion ; 
and, afterwards, their virtue has improved itfelf into more 
refined principles by divine grace. Watts. —To trace from 
any thing, as the fird ground.— The apodle begins our 
knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the know¬ 
ledge of God. Locke. 
To Begin with. To enter upon; to fall to work upon. 
-—A leflbn which requires fo much time to learn, had need 
be early begun with. 
BEGlN'NER,yi He that gives the fird caufe, or ori¬ 
ginal, to any tiling.—Socrates maketh Ignatius, the bidiop 
of Antioch, the drd beginner thereof, even under the apof- 
tles themfelves. Hooker. —An unexperienced attempter; 
one in his rudiments ; a young praftitioner.—I have taken 
a lid of feveral hundred words in the fermon of a new be¬ 
ginner, which not one hearer could poflibly underhand. 
Swift. 
BEGIN'NING,/! The fird original or caufe. The en¬ 
trance into aft, or being.—In the beginning God created 
the heavens and the earth. Genefis. —The date in which 
any thing fird is : 
Youth, what man’s age is like to be, doth fnow ; 
We may our end by our beginning know. DerJtam. 
The rudiments, or fir ft grounds or materials : 
By viewing nature, nature’s handmaid, art. 
Makes mighty things from final! beginnings grow : 
Thus filhes fird to hupping did impart, 
Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. Dryden. 
The fird part of any thing.—The caufes and defigns of art 
aftion, are the beginning ; the effects of thefe caufes, and 
the difficulties that are met with in the execution of thefe 
defigns, are the middle ; and the unravelling and refolti- 
fion of thefe difficulties, are the end. Broome. 
To BEGIRD', v.a. I begirt, or begirded . ; I have ft- 
BEG 
girt: [from be and gird. ] To bind with a girdle. To fur- 
round ; to encircle ; to encompafs : 
At home furrounded by a fervile crowd, 
Prompt to abufe, and in detraftion loud : 
Abroad begirt with men, and fwords, and fpears; 
His very date acknowledging his fears. Prior. 
To fhut in with a dege ; to beleaguer; to block up—It 
was fo clofely begirt before the king’s marsh into the wed, 
that the council humbly defired his majedy, that he wouid 
relieve it. Clarendon. 
To BEGIRT', v. a. [this is only a corruption of begird .] 
To begird: 
And, Lentulus, begirt you Pompey’s houfe. 
To feize his fons alive ; for they are they 
Mud make our peace with him. Ben Johnfon. 
BEGKAW'E, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Boledaw : three miles wed of Melnik. 
BEGLAISEH', a town of Adatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Caramania : eight miles north of Kir-Ihehr. 
BEG'LERBEG,/. A chief governor in the Turkifh 
empire, and next in dignity to the grand vizier. To every 
beglerbeg the grand fignior gives three enfigns or daves, 
trimmed with a horfe-tail; to didinguidt them from the 
bafhaws, who have but two; and from fimple begs, or 
fangiac begs, who have but one. The province or go¬ 
vernment of beglerbeg is called beglerbeglik. Thefe are of 
two forts ; tile fird called bajilo beglerbeglik, which have a 
certain rent adigned out of the cities, countries, and figni- 
ories, allotted to the principality; the fecondcalled faliancz 
beglerbeglik, for the maintenance of which is annexed a falary 
or rent, collefted by the grand dgnior’s officers with the 
treaiure of the empire. The beglerbegs of the fird fort 
are in number twenty-two, viz. thofe of Anatolia, Cara¬ 
mania, Diarbekir, Damafcus, Aleppo, Tripoli, Trebi- 
zond, Buda, Temifwar, &c. The beglerbegs of the fe¬ 
cond fort are in number fix, viz. thofe of Cairo, Babylon, 
&c. Five of the beglerbegs have the title of viziers, viz. 
thofe of Anatolia, Babylon, Cairo, Romania, and Buda. 
The beglerbegs appear with great date, and a large reti¬ 
nue, efpecially in the camp, being obliged to bring a fol- 
dier for every 5000 afpers of rent which they enjoy. 
Thofe of Romania brought 10,000 effeftive men into the 
field. The beglerbegs have under their jurifdiftion feve¬ 
ral fangiacs or particular governments, and begs, agas, 
and other officers, who obey them. 
To BEGNAVV', v. a. [from be and gnciw.~\ To bite; to 
eat away ; to corrode ; to nibble.—The worm of conf- 
cience dill begnaw thy foul. Skakefpeare. 
BEGO'NE, interjebl. [only a coalition o.f the words be 
gone. ] Go away ; hence; hade away : 
Begone! the goddefs cries with dern difdain; 
Begone! nor dare the hallow’d dream to dain. 
She Red, for ever banifii’d from the train. Addifon. 
BEGO'NIA,y. [fo named by Plunder, from M. Begon.j 
In botany, a genus of the dais monoecia, order polyan- 
dria, natural order holoraceai. The generic characters 
are—I. Male flowers. Calyx: none. Corolla: petals 
four (in begonia oftopetaia fix to nine), of which two op- 
pofite ones are larger, commonly roundifli, (in begonia fer- 
ruginia all nearly equal, oblong.) Stamina: filaments 
numerous (fifteen to one hundred), inferted into the recep¬ 
tacle, very fliort, fometimes united at the bafe ; anthers: 
oblong, ereft. II. Female flowers, ufually on the famd 
common peduncle with the males. Calyx : none. Co¬ 
rolla : petals in mod fpecies five, in fome fix, In others 
perhaps four, commonly unequal. Piftillum : germ infe¬ 
rior, three-fided, in very many winged; dyles in mod 
three, bidd ; digmas fix. Pericarpium : caplule in mod 
three-cornered, winged, three-celled, opening at the bafe 
by the wings; fome are two-celled, and others perhaps 
one-celled.— EJfential Charabler. Male. Calyx none ; co¬ 
rolla many-petalled ; damina numerous. Female. Calyx 
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