Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. Obsolete forms of borrow, borough, etc.
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Examples
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There is a maner emong them, sometyme to borowe money vpon their parentes corpses, deliueryng the bodies to the creditours in pledge.
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Good be my guyde/and saynt George vnto borowe [aud]
The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers Stephen Hawes
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Nature is feyne of crafte here eien to borowe, 416
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Nature is fay [= n] of craft/her eyen to borowe 416
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Borrow: borowe: (noun) security. (verb) give security for. borowhood: state of being security. borrowed: redeemed, released by the fulfilment of conditions.
A Bundle of Ballads Henry Morley 1858
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Yea, Queene Isabella was so poore and bare that she was faine to offer her owne jewells to gage, to borowe money to sett furthe Columbus in his firste voyadge, as it is to be seene in the 14. chapiter of the Historie of Ferdinandus
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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There is a maner emong them, sometyme to borowe money vpon their parentes corpses, deliueryng the bodies to the creditours in pledge.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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_ To stande longer about this, it is but folye: excepte that this you maye also vnderstande, that many do begynne to subtracte with counters, not at the hyghest su {m} me, as I haue taught you, but at the nethermoste, as they do vse to adde: and when the summe to be abatyd, in any lyne appeareth greater then the other, then do they borowe one of the next hygher roume, as for example: yf they shuld abate 1846 from
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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Whanne þ {o} u hast do þus, go to þe next fig {ur} e þ {a} t is now bot 1. but first yt was 2, & þ {ere} - of was borred 1. þan take out of þ {a} t þe fig {ur} e vnd {er} hym, þ {a} t is 3. hit wel not be. þer-for {e} borowe of the next fig {ur} e, þe quych is bot 1.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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