'Borrow' definitions:

Definition of 'borrow'

verb

Get temporarily; "May I borrow your lawn mower?" [ant: lend, loan]

verb

Take up and practice as one's own [syn: adopt, borrow, take over, take up]

From: GCIDE

Borrow \Bor"row\, n.
1. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Ye may retain as borrows my two priests. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
2. The act of borrowing. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Of your royal presence I'll adventure The borrow of a week. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
3. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. [1913 Webster]
Rites borrowed from the ancients. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
4. To feign or counterfeit. "Borrowed hair." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
The borrowed majesty of England. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
5. To receive; to take; to derive. [1913 Webster]
Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive. [1913 Webster]

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.)