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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.

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..

Repay :: Repay (v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced..

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..

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

Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.

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

Borrower :: Borrower (n.) One who borrows.

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

Bond :: Bond (n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond..

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

Borrow :: Borrow (n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

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

Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank..

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.

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

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

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..

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..

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