To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask for earnestly.
An entreaty.
To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
To clean (the beak, etc.).
To leave high and dry on shore.