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borrow

BOR'ROW, v.t.

1. To take from another by request and consent, with a view to use the thing taken for a time, and return it, or if the thing taken is to be consumed or transferred in the use, then to return an equivalent in kind; as, to borrow a book, a sum of money,or a loaf of bread. It is opposed to lend.

2. To take from another, for one's own use; to copy or select from the writings of another author; as, to borrow a passage from a printed book; to borrow a title.

3. To take or adopt for one's own use, sentiments, principles, doctrines and the like; as, to borrow instruction.

4. To take for use something that belongs to another; to assume, copy or imitate; as, to borrow a shape; to borrow the manners of another, or his style of writing.

BOR'ROW, n. A borrowing; the act of borrowing. [Not used.]

But of your royal presence I'll adventure.

The borrow of a week.


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BOR'ROW, v.t.

1. To take from another by request and consent, with a view to use the thing taken for a time, and return it, or if the thing taken is to be consumed or transferred in the use, then to return an equivalent in kind; as, to borrow a book, a sum of money,or a loaf of bread. It is opposed to lend.

2. To take from another, for one's own use; to copy or select from the writings of another author; as, to borrow a passage from a printed book; to borrow a title.

3. To take or adopt for one's own use, sentiments, principles, doctrines and the like; as, to borrow instruction.

4. To take for use something that belongs to another; to assume, copy or imitate; as, to borrow a shape; to borrow the manners of another, or his style of writing.

BOR'ROW, n. A borrowing; the act of borrowing. [Not used.]

But of your royal presence I'll adventure.

The borrow of a week.

BOR'ROW, n.

A borrowing; the act of borrowing. [Not used.] But of your royal presence I'll adventure / The borrow of a week. – Shak.


BOR'ROW, v.t. [Sax. borgian, to borrow; D. borgen, to borrow, lend or trust; Ger. borgen, the same; Dan. borger, to borrow; borgen, bail, surety, pledge, warranter, main-pernor; borg, trust, credit; Sw. borgan, a giving bail; borg, a fortress. The primary sense is, to make fast or secure.]

  1. To take from another by request and consent, with a view to use the thing taken for a time, and return it, or if the thing taken is to be consumed or transferred in the use, then to return an equivalent in kind; as, to borrow a book, a sum of money or a loaf of bread. It is opposed to lend.
  2. To take from another, for one's own use; to copy or select from the writings of another author; as, to borrow a passage from a printed book; to borrow a title.
  3. To take or adopt for one's own use, sentiments, principles, doctrines and the like; as, to borrow instruction.
  4. To take for use something that belongs to another; to assume, copy or imitate; as, to borrow a shape; to borrow the manners of another, or his style of writing.

Bor"row
  1. 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.
  2. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

    [Obs.]

    Ye may retain as borrows my two priests.
    Sir W. Scott.

  3. 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.
  4. The act of borrowing.

    [Obs.]

    Of your royal presence I'll adventure
    The borrow of a week.
    Shak.

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

    Rites borrowed from the ancients.
    Macaulay.

    It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
    Milton.

  6. To feign or counterfeit.

    "Borrowed hair." Spenser.

    The borrowed majesty of England.
    Shak.

  7. To receive; to take; to derive.

    Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother.
    Shak.

    To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.

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Borrow

BOR'ROW, verb transitive

1. To take from another by request and consent, with a view to use the thing taken for a time, and return it, or if the thing taken is to be consumed or transferred in the use, then to return an equivalent in kind; as, to borrow a book, a sum of money, or a loaf of bread. It is opposed to lend.

2. To take from another, for one's own use; to copy or select from the writings of another author; as, to borrow a passage from a printed book; to borrow a title.

3. To take or adopt for one's own use, sentiments, principles, doctrines and the like; as, to borrow instruction.

4. To take for use something that belongs to another; to assume, copy or imitate; as, to borrow a shape; to borrow the manners of another, or his style of writing.

BOR'ROW, noun A borrowing; the act of borrowing. [Not used.]

But of your royal presence I'll adventure.

The borrow of a week.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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presentable

PRESENT'ABLE, a. That may be presented; that may be exhibited or represented.

1. That may be offered to a church living; as a presentable clerk.

2. That admits of the presentation of a clerk; as a church presentable. [Unusual.]

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