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Definition of Borrowed
1. borrow [v] - See also: borrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Borrowed
Literary usage of Borrowed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"... when he should attain the age of twenty^ve, it was clear, upon the whole
nothing but the payment was postponed. borrowed from " ^x his ver^s, ..."
2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"Near the end of March, 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by
Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"At the same time, the evidence appears to show that the sums so borrowed were
applied directly to pay the expenses of the receivership, repairs, supplies, ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"This Du.jenever is, however, merely borrowed from F., so that it comes to much
the same thing. Cf. ' Theriaque des Alemán?, ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... with point and feeling, but borrowed the first couplet from Crashaw. 1'oes to
the tribe from which they trace their clan, As monkeys draw their pedigree ..."