Part 1292

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To copy or imitate; to adopt; <as>as, to <ex>borrow</ex> the style, manner, or opinions of another</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Rites <b>borrowed</b> from the ancients. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

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

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To feign or counterfeit.</def> "<i>Borrowed</i> hair."

<i>Spenser.</i>

<blockquote>The <b>borrowed</b> majesty of England. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To receive; to take; to derive.</def>

<blockquote>Any drop thou <b>borrowedst</b> from thy mother. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To borrow trouble</col>, <cd>to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.</cd></cs>

<h1>Borrow</h1> <Xpage=168>

<hw>Bor"row</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Ye may retain as <b>borrows</b> my two priests. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of borrowing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Of your royal presence I'll adventure The <b>borrow</b> of a week. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Borrower</h1> <Xpage=168>

<hw>Bor"row*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who borrows.</def>

<blockquote>Neither a <b>borrower</b> nor a lender be. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Borsholder</h1> <Xpage=168>

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

<i>Spelman.</i>

<h1>Bort</h1> <Xpage=168>

<hw>Bort</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.</def>

<h1>Boruret</h1> <Xpage=168>

<hw>Bo"ru*ret</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A boride.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Borwe</h1> <Xpage=168>

<hw>Bor"we</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Pledge; borrow.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Bos</h1> <Xpage=168>