Definition of borrow

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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.

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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..
Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) A petty constable.
Appoggiatura :: Appoggiatura (n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive; to take; to derive.
Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank..
Return :: Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis..
Repay :: Repay (v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money..
Borwe :: Borwe (n.) Pledge; borrow.
Rigadoon :: Rigadoon (n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France..
Mutuary :: Mutuary (n.) One who borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed by him, and which he is to return or repay in kind..
Creance :: Creance (v. i. & t.) To get on credit; to borrow.
Borrowed :: Borrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Borro.
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..
Borrower :: Borrower (n.) One who borrows.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse..
Borrowing :: Borrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Borro.
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars..
Succoteague :: Succotash (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.
Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
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