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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

Rigadoon :: Rigadoon (n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France..

Replace :: Replace (v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed..

Loan :: Loan (n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan..

Borrow :: Borrow (n.) The act of borrowing.

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..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars..

Mutuation :: Mutuation (n.) The act of borrowing or exchanging.

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..

Usury :: Usury (v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.

Terza Rima :: Terza rima () A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours..

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.

Borrow :: 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..

Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow..

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..

Rubato :: Rubato (a.) Robbed; borrowed.

Return :: Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money..

Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another..

Ombre :: Ombre (n.) A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons..

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