Definition of borrow

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Borrow (v. t.) To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend..

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Repay :: Repay (v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced..
Rubato :: Rubato (a.) Robbed; borrowed.
Borrowed :: Borrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Borro.
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder..
Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank..
Creance :: Creance (v. i. & t.) To get on credit; to borrow.
Pawn :: Pawn (n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1..
Unborrowed :: Unborrowed (a.) Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.
Hypothecator :: Hypothecator (n.) One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars..
Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch..
Borrow :: Borrow (n.) The act of borrowing.
A :: A () The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural
Borrowing :: Borrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Borro.
Rigadoon :: Rigadoon (n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse..
Ombre :: Ombre (n.) A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons..
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