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To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.

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  1. v. i. To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.
  2. v. i. To steal; to rob; to filch.
  3. v. i. To prick; to goad; to progue.
  4. n. Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
  5. n. A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
  6. n. A goal; progue.
  7. 1. To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. [Low] A perfect artist in progging for money. Fuller. I have been endeavoring to prog for you. Burke. 2. To steal; to rob; to filch. [Low] Johnson. 3. To prick; to goad; to progue. [Scot.] 1. Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Slang] Swift. So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning. 2. A vagrant beggar; a tramp. [Slang] 3. A goal; progue. [Scot.]
  8. n:100 v. i. To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. v. i. To steal; to rob; to filch. v. i. To prick; to goad; to progue. n. Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. n. A vagrant beggar; a tramp. n. A goal; progue.