usage: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
Verb
1. beg, implore, pray, plead
usage: call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
2. solicit, beg, tap, request, bespeak, call for, quest
usage: make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"