English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Usage
(n.)
The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment;
conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage;
hard usage.
Usage
(n.)
Manners; conduct; behavior.
Usage
(n.)
Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure;
custom; habitual use; method.
Usage
(n.)
Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a
particular sense or signification.
Usage
(n.)
Experience.
Usager
(n.)
One who has the use of anything in trust for another.
Usance
(v. t.)
Use; usage; employment.
Usance
(v. t.)
Custom; practice; usage.
Usance
(v. t.)
Interest paid for money; usury.
Usance
(v. t.)
The time, fixed variously by the usage between different
countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on
London at one usance, or at double usance.
Usant
(a.)
Using; accustomed.
Usbegs
(n. pl.)
Alt. of Usbeks
Usbeks
(n. pl.)
A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th
century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called
Turkestan.
Use
(v. t.)
The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's
service; the state of being so employed or applied; application;
employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in
writing; his machines are in general use.
Use
(v. t.)
Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no
further use for a book.
Use
(v. t.)
Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being
used; usefulness; utility.
Use
(v. t.)
Continued or repeated practice; customary employment;
usage; custom; manner; habit.
Use
(v. t.)
Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
Use
(v. t.)
The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese;
as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the
Roman use; etc.
Use
(v. t.)
The premium paid for the possession and employment of
borrowed money; interest; usury.