Verb

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to'', ''toward , etc.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

They delight rather to lean to their old customs.

To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .

* (1809-1892)

He leaned not on his fathers but himself.

* , chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}

To hang outwards.

To press against.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

His fainting limbs against an oak he leant .

Verb

(en verb)

To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

* {{quote-magazine

, year=1938 , month=July , author=Blaine and Dupont Miller , title=Weather Hop , page=25 , magazine=Boy's Life , publisher=Boy Scouts of America , issn=0006-8608 citation , passage=He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose. }}

* {{quote-magazine

, year=2002 , month=July , author=Tom Benenson , title=Can Your Engine Run Too Lean? , volume=129 , issue=7 , page=73 , magazine=Flying , issn=0015-4806 citation , passage=Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude. }}

Verb

(en verb)

To conceal.

(Ray)

Verb

(en verb)

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another

* Macaulay

rites borrowed from the ancients

* Milton

It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.

(arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.

(proscribed) To lend.

* {{quote-book, year=1951, year_published=1998, publisher=University of Wisconsin Press

, editor=James P. Leary, author=The Grenadiers, section=Milwaukee Talk, isbn=9780299160340, page=56 , title= Wisconsin Folklore , passage=“Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.”}}

* {{quote-book, year=2005, publisher=Trafford Publishing, author=Gladys Blyth

, title= Summer at the Cannery , isbn=9781412025362, page=83 , passage=“Ryan, borrow me your lunch pail so we can fill it with blueberries. Susie can make us a pie.”}}

* {{quote-book, year=2006, publisher=Andres Rueda, author=Andrés Rueda, section=Chapter 13

, title= The Clawback , isbn=9781419647680, page=131 , passage=Georgi reached for his empty pockets. “Can you borrow me your telephone?”}}

* {{quote-book, year=2007, publisher=Lulu.com, author=Silvia Cecchini

, title= Bach Flowers Fairytales , isbn=9781847533203, page=7 , passage=“Gaia, could you borrow me your pencils ,(SIC) today, if you do not use them?”}}

To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

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To feign or counterfeit.

* Spenser

borrowed hair

* Shakespeare

the borrowed majesty of England