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{ Bor"ough*mon"ger*ing, Bor"ough*mon"ger*y } (&?;), n. The practices of a boroughmonger.

Bor*rach"o (&?;), n. See Borachio. [Obs.]

Bor"rage (&?;), n., Bor*rag`i*na"ceous (&?;), a., etc. See Borage, n., etc.

Bor"rel (&?;), n. [OF. burel a kind of coarse woolen cloth, fr. F. bure drugget. See Bureau. Rustic and common people dressed in this cloth, which was prob. so called from its color.] 1. Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.

Bor"rel, a. [Prob. from Borrel, n.] Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bor"row (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Borrowed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Borrowing.] [OE. borwen, AS. borgian, fr. borg, borh, pledge; akin to D. borg, G. borg; prob. fr. root of AS. beorgan to protect. &?;95. See 1st Borough.] 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. (Arith.) 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.

3. 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.

4. To feign or counterfeit. "Borrowed hair." Spenser.

The borrowed majesty of England. Shak.

5. To receive; to take; to derive.

Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother. Shak.

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

Bor"row, n. 1. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. [Obs.]

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

2. The act of borrowing. [Obs.]

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

Bor"row*er (&?;), n. One who borrows.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak.

Bors"hold`er (&?;), n. [OE. borsolder; prob. fr. AS. borg, gen. borges, pledge + ealdor elder. See Borrow, and Elder, a.] (Eng. Law) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

Bort (&?;), n. Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

Bo"ru*ret (&?;), n. (Chem.) A boride. [Obs.]

Bor"we (&?;), n. Pledge; borrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

||Bos (&?;), n. [L., ox, cow.] (Zoöl.) 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.

||Bo"sa (&?;), n. [Ar. b&?;za, Pers. b&?;zah: cf. F. bosan.] A drink, used in the East. See Boza.