beggar : Idioms & Phrases

• noun Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
  beggar lice.
  
• noun any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
  beggar lice; tick trefoil.
  

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• noun Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing
  beggar lice.
  
• noun any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
  beggar lice; tick trefoil.
  

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Beg"gar's lice`

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1. (Bot.) The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.

Webster 1913

Beg"gar's ticks`

Definitions

1. The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

Webster 1913

• noun any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
  burr marigold; bur marigold; beggar's-ticks; sticktight.
  

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• noun a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards
  strip-Jack-naked; beggar-my-neighbor.
  

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• noun a policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others; used especially of national policy
  beggar-my-neighbour policy; beggar-my-neighbor policy; beggar-my-neighbor strategy.
  
  • the United States has pursued a beggar-my-neighbor policy

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• noun a policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others; used especially of national policy
  beggar-my-neighbour policy; beggar-my-neighbor policy; beggar-my-neighbor strategy.
  
  • the United States has pursued a beggar-my-neighbor policy

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• noun a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards
  strip-Jack-naked; beggar-my-neighbor.
  

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• noun a policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others; used especially of national policy
  beggar-my-neighbour policy; beggar-my-neighbor policy; beggar-my-neighbor strategy.
  
  • the United States has pursued a beggar-my-neighbor policy

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• noun a policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others; used especially of national policy
  beggar-my-neighbour policy; beggar-my-neighbor policy; beggar-my-neighbor strategy.
  
  • the United States has pursued a beggar-my-neighbor policy

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• noun the seed of bur marigolds
  Spanish needles.
  
• noun any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
  burr marigold; bur marigold; beggar's-ticks; sticktight.
  

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Cou"ple-beg`gar noun

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1. One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.

Webster 1913

• noun bur marigold of temperate Eurasia
  trifid bur marigold; European beggar-ticks; Bidens tripartita.
  

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• noun bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and Canada common in wet pastures and meadows
  Bidens connata.
  

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• noun bur marigold of temperate Eurasia
  trifid bur marigold; European beggar-ticks; Bidens tripartita.
  

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