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loaner (of item loaned).<br />

V. lend, advance, accommodate with; lend on security; loan; pawn &c (security) 771.<br />

intrust, invest; place out to interest, put out to interest.<br />

let, demise, lease, sett † , underlet.<br />

Adj. lending &c v.; lent &c v.; unborrowed &c (borrowed) &c 788 [Obs.].<br />

Adv. in advance; on loan, on security.<br />

788. Borrowing -- N. borrowing, pledging.<br />

borrowed plumes; plagiarism &c (thieving) 791.<br />

replevin [Law].<br />

V. borrow, desume † .<br />

hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by<br />

the year &c; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year &c; adopt, apply,<br />

appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.<br />

raise money, take up money; raise the wind; fly a kite, borrow from Peter to pay Paul;<br />

run into debt &c (debt) 806.<br />

replevy [Law].<br />

789. Taking -- N. taking &c v.; reception &c (taking in) 296; deglutition &c (taking<br />

food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation † ; capture, caption; apprehension,<br />

deprehension † ; abreption † , seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction,<br />

withdrawal &c 38; abstraction, ademption † ; adrolepsy † .<br />

dispossession; deprivation, deprivement † ; bereavement; divestment; disherison † ;<br />

distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction &c 297.<br />

rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft &c 791.<br />

resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery &c 775.<br />

clutch, swoop, wrench; grip &c (retention) 781; haul, take, catch; scramble.<br />

taker, captor.<br />

[Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate] subduction [Geol.].<br />

V. take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.<br />

reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather &c (get) 775; draw.<br />

appropriate, expropriate, impropriate † ; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of;<br />

commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip<br />

one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.<br />

take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem † ; abstract; hurry<br />

off with, run away with; abduct; steal &c 791; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon;<br />

swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave † .<br />

snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on.<br />

get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of;<br />

lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab,<br />

clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.<br />

catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a long arm, stretch<br />

forth one's hand.<br />

take from, take away from; disseize † ; deduct &c 38; retrench &c (curtail) 201;<br />

dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from,<br />

wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.

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