Index of English words, starting with "bo"

(1) - Borosilicate (n.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.

(1) - Borough (n.) The pledge or surety thus given.
(2) - Borough (n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
(3) - Borough (n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
(4) - Borough (n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

(1) - Borrow (n.) The act of borrowing.
(2) - Borrow (n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
(3) - Borrow (v. t.) To receive; to take; to derive.
(4) - Borrow (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.
(5) - Borrow (v. t.) To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
(6) - Borrow (v. t.) 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.
(7) - Borrow (v. t.) 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.

(1) - Borrower (n.) One who borrows.

(1) - Borrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Borrow