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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..

Borrowing :: Borrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Borro.

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..

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 (n.) The act of borrowing.

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..

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..

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

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

Borrower :: Borrower (n.) One who borrows.

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

Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.

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

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

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

Mutuation :: Mutuation (n.) The act of borrowing or exchanging.

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..

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..

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