(bôr′ō, bor′ ō) v.t.
1. To take or obtain (something) on a promise to return it or its equivalent.
2. To adopt for one's own use, as words or ideas.
3. Math. In subtraction, to add ten to any figure of the minuend, at the same time withdrawing one from the next figure of the process.
—v.i.
4. To borrow something.
—noun
1. A place, as a bank of earth, where material is removed to be used as filling elsewhere.
2. Obs. A pledge; surety; the act of borrowing. [OE borgian give a pledge, borrow <borg pledge]
—bor′row·er noun

(bôr′ō, bor′ō), George Henry,
1803–1881, English writer and authority on Romany language and customs.