Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Loaning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loan \Loan\, n. t. [imp. & p. p. {Loaned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Loaning}.]
To lend; -- sometimes with out. --Kent.
By way of location or loaning them out. --J. Langley
(1644).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Loanin \Loan"in\, Loaning \Loan"ing\, n. [From Scotch loan, E.
lawn.]
An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle
are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a
lane. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
loaning
n : disposing of money or property with the expectation that the
same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned [syn: {lending}]
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