Definition of borrow

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

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Borrowing :: Borrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Borro.
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
Loan :: Loan (n.) That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.
Pawn :: Pawn (n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1..
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..
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..
Succoteague :: Succotash (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.
Ombre :: Ombre (n.) A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons..
Borrow :: Borrow (n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
Hypothecator :: Hypothecator (n.) One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse..
Mutuation :: Mutuation (n.) The act of borrowing or exchanging.
Borrow :: Borrow (n.) The act of borrowing.
Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank..
Unborrowed :: Unborrowed (a.) Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money..
Rubato :: Rubato (a.) Robbed; borrowed.
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..
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..
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