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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..

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

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

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..

Replace :: Replace (v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed..

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

Desume :: Desume (v. t.) To select; to borrow.

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

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..

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

Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive; to take; to derive.

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

Latinize :: Latinize (v. i.) To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.

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

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..

Rubato :: Rubato (a.) Robbed; borrowed.

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

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-..

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