英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Use
(v. t.)
The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a
trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to
whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An
estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.
Use
(v. t.)
A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft,
near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen
the forging.
Use
(v. t.)
To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's
self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a
chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation.
Use
(v. t.)
To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to
use a beast cruelly.
Use
(v. t.)
To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use
diligence in business.
Use
(v. t.)
To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice;
to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used
to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
Use
(v. i.)
To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice;
as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps
because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to."
Use
(v. i.)
To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell;
-- sometimes followed by of.
Used
(imp. & p. p.)
of Use
Useful
(a.)
Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having
power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful
toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as,
vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for
improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.
Usefully
(adv.)
In a useful manner.
Usefulness
(n.)
The quality or state of being useful; utility;
serviceableness; advantage.
Useless
(a.)
Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no
good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end
proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless
pity.
User
(n.)
One who uses.
User
(n.)
Enjoyment of property; use.
Usher
(n.)
An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a
court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it
is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also,
one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
Usher
(n.)
An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
Usher
(v. t.)
To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or
harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to
usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into
the room.
Usherance
(n.)
The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in.
Usherdom
(n.)
The office or position of an usher; ushership; also,
ushers, collectively.