Borrow

·vt To feign or counterfeit.

II. Borrow ·noun The act of Borrowing.

III. Borrow ·noun Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

IV. Borrow ·vt To Receive; to Take; to Derive.

V. Borrow ·vt To copy or imitate; to Adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.

VI. Borrow ·vt 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.

VII. Borrow ·vt 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.