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En- :: En- () A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-..

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.

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

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

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

Use :: Use (v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.

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

Creance :: Creance (v. i. & t.) To get on credit; to borrow.

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

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

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..

Hypothecator :: Hypothecator (n.) One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

Borwe :: Borwe (n.) Pledge; borrow.

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

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..

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

Succoteague :: Succotash (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.

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..

Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) A petty constable.

Unborrowed :: Unborrowed (a.) Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.

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