Definition of borrow

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

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Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
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
Borrow :: Borrow (n.) The act of borrowing.
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.
Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank..
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another..
Repay :: Repay (v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive; to take; to derive.
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.
Borwe :: Borwe (n.) Pledge; borrow.
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..
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..
Succoteague :: Succotash (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.
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..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money..
Borrowing :: Borrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Borro.
Creance :: Creance (v. i. & t.) To get on credit; to borrow.
Borrow :: Borrow (n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
Mutuation :: Mutuation (n.) The act of borrowing or exchanging.
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