Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, a.
   Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, n. [OE. beggerie. See {Beggar}, n.]
   1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar;
      mendicancy; extreme poverty.

   2. Beggarly appearance. [R.]

            The freedom and the beggary of the old studio.
                                                  --Thackeray.

   Syn: Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.

Source : WordNet®

beggary
     n 1: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
          by an apparently penniless person) [syn: {begging}, {mendicancy}]
     2: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
        appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
        homeless" [syn: {indigence}, {need}, {penury}, {pauperism},
         {pauperization}]