borrow
    v 1: get temporarily; "May I borrow your lawn mower?" [ant:
         lend, loan]
    2: take up and practice as one's own [syn: adopt, borrow,
       take over, take up]

Borrow \Bor"row\, n.
   1. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a
      hostage. [Obs.]
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            Ye may retain as borrows my two priests. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   2. The act of borrowing. [Obs.]
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            Of your royal presence I'll adventure
            The borrow of a week.                 --Shak.
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Borrow \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.
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   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.
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   3. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style,
      manner, or opinions of another.
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            Rites borrowed from the ancients.     --Macaulay.
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            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.
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   4. To feign or counterfeit. "Borrowed hair." --Spenser.
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            The borrowed majesty of England.      --Shak.
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   5. To receive; to take; to derive.
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            Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother. --Shak.
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   To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be
      overapprehensive.
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Borrow
   The Israelites "borrowed" from the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35, R.V.,
   "asked") in accordance with a divine command (3:22; 11:2). But
   the word (sha'al) so rendered here means simply and always to
   "request" or "demand." The Hebrew had another word which is
   properly translated "borrow" in Deut. 28:12; Ps. 37:21. It was
   well known that the parting was final. The Egyptians were so
   anxious to get the Israelites away out of their land that "they
   let them have what they asked" (Ex. 12:36, R.V.), or literally
   "made them to ask," urged them to take whatever they desired and
   depart. (See LOAN.)