2. The act of borrowing. [Obs.]

Of your royal presence I'll adventure

The borrow of a week.

Shak.

Bor"row*er (&?;), n. One who borrows.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Shak.

Bors"hold`er (&?;), n. [OE. borsolder; prob. fr. AS. borg, gen. borges, pledge + ealdor elder. See Borrow, and Elder, a.] (Eng. Law) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

Bort (&?;), n. Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

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