English English Dictionary

Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.

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

To feign or counterfeit.

To receive; to take; to derive.

Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

The act of borrowing.

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.

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.

of Borrow

One who borrows.

of Borrow

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.

of Breste

Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

A boride.

Pledge; borrow.

A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

A drink, used in the East. See Boza.

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.