borrow vb. (extensions of the common sense are)
1.
to
derive, receive
Troil. IV. v. 132
“any drop”
[of blood] “thou
borrow'dst from thy mother,”
Sonn. cliii. 5
“Which borrow'd from
this holy fire of Love A dateless lively
heat.”
2.
to assume, put on
H5 II. iv. 79
“The borrow'd
glories”
; cf.
Lr. I. iv. 1
“If but as well I other
accents borrow”
; hence “borrowed” often = counterfeit, false Rom. IV. i. 104,
Lucr. 1549
“those borrow'd
tears.”
