5. To receive; to take; to derive.

Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother.

Shak.

To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.

Bor"row, n. 1. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. [Obs.]

Ye may retain as borrows my two priests.

Sir W. Scott.

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