To lend.
1729. Gershom Tobey loans oxen.—New England Register. (N.E.D.)
1740. The remainder of the [money] shall be loaned out to particular persons.—‘Conn. Colonial Records.’ (N.E.D.)
1794. Money borrowed or loaned.—Advt., Gazette of the U.S., Phila., Jan. 7.
1828. He has loaned a thousand dollars at Sidney cove, on my credit.—T. Flint, ‘Arthur Clenning,’ ii. 75.
1834. By a strange perversion, is now attempted to be so construed as to confer on the secretary the power to withdraw the money from the deposite, and loan it to favorite state banks—I express myself too favourably, I should say give (they pay no interest)—with a view to sustain their credits or enlarge their profits—a power not only far beyond the secretary, but which Congress itself could not exercise without a flagrant breach of the Constitution.—J. C. Calhoun, ‘Works,’ ii. 327. (N.E.D.)
1837. I loaned him a horse, and set him off to Logan’s.—R. M. Bird, ‘Nick of the Woods,’ i. 117 (Lond.).
1847. Being in great pecuniary distress, I once asked you to loan me five dollars; you consented, on condition that my bill for the amount should be endorsed by a good man in the city.—Sol. Smith, ‘Adventures,’ p. 95.
1853. [He] swore … that he had loaned him the one [gun] then in court.—S. A. Hammett (‘Philip Paxton’), ‘A Stray Yankee in Texas,’ p. 306.
1854. Just read this exquisite picture of the heroine in that wonderful story of ‘Elizabeth Barton,’ while I see how much I can loan you.—Knick. Mag., xliv. 417 (Oct.).
1856. Somebody loaned me a novel—I forget its title or author, but, at any rate, it overflowed with agony, and a deal of it run into me!—Id., xlviii. 243 (Sept.).
1867. On the horse that was loaned me I again set out, this time nearer the command.—Letter of Gen. Custer, April 20: Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ p. 570 (1888).
1909. Robert T. Lincoln … has loaned the Historical Society a number of relics.—N.Y. Evening Post, Feb. 8.
