alms

Another piece might cause people to come up short is an elaborate green Burmese Buddhist alms bowl on a stand covered in gold.

“You can't give alms to the poor on one level and have your hands on their throat on another,” he said.

A beggar asking alms under the character of a poor scholar, a gentleman put the question, Quomodo vales?

But when thou dost alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth.