Definition of borrow

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

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Succoteague :: Succotash (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money..
Use :: Use (v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
Borrower :: Borrower (n.) One who borrows.
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars..
Unborrowed :: Unborrowed (a.) Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.
Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank..
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..
Borrowed :: Borrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Borro.
Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
Rubato :: Rubato (a.) Robbed; borrowed.
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.) A petty constable.
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 copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another..
Replace :: Replace (v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed..
Moon :: Moon (n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month..
Loan :: Loan (n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan..
Ombre :: Ombre (n.) A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons..
Borrowing :: Borrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Borro.
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