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- English Word Usance Definition 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.
- English Word Usant Definition Using; accustomed.
- English Word Usbegs Definition Alt. of Usbeks
- English Word Usbeks Definition A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called Turkestan.
- English Word Use Definition 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.
- English Word Use Definition Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.
- English Word Use Definition Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.
- English Word Use Definition Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.
- English Word Use Definition Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
- English Word Use Definition 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.
- English Word Use Definition The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
- English Word Use Definition 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.
- English Word Use Definition 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.
- English Word Use Definition 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.
- English Word Use Definition To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.
- English Word Use Definition To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.
- English Word Use Definition 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.
- English Word Use Definition 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."
- English Word Use Definition To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.
- English Word Used Definition of Use
- English Word Useful Definition 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.
- English Word Usefully Definition In a useful manner.
- English Word Usefulness Definition The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage.
- English Word Useless Definition 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.
- English Word User Definition One who uses.
- English Word User Definition Enjoyment of property; use.
- English Word Usher Definition 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.
- English Word Usher Definition An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
- English Word Usher Definition 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.
- English Word Usherance Definition The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in.