Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Borrow

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Borrow


Subjects in this Topic:

(1):

(n.) The act of borrowing.

(2):

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

(3):

(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.

(4):

(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.

(5):

(v. t.) To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.

(6):

(v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.

(7):

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