Definition of borrow

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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.

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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.
Terza Rima :: Terza rima () A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours..
Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) A petty constable.
Bond :: Bond (n.) An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond..
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..
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.
Rubato :: Rubato (a.) Robbed; borrowed.
Ombre :: Ombre (n.) A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons..
Use :: Use (v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
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..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money..
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.
Usury :: Usury (v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
Borrowed :: Borrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Borro.
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.
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..
Repay :: Repay (v. t.) To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced..
Replace :: Replace (v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed..
F :: F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.;
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