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- English Word Usurer Definition One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.
- English Word Usurer Definition One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.
- English Word Usuring Definition of Usure
- English Word Usurious Definition Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
- English Word Usurious Definition Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract.
- English Word Usurp Definition To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.
- English Word Usurp Definition To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.
- English Word Usurpant Definition Usurping; encroaching.
- English Word Usurpation Definition The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.
- English Word Usurpation Definition Use; usage; custom.
- English Word Usurpatory Definition Marked by usurpation; usurping.
- English Word Usurpature Definition Usurpation.
- English Word Usurped Definition of Usurp
- English Word Usurper Definition One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.
- English Word Usurping Definition of Usurp
- English Word Usurpingly Definition In a usurping manner.
- English Word Usury Definition A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
- English Word Usury Definition The practice of taking interest.
- English Word Usury Definition Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
- English Word Ut Definition The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.
- English Word Utas Definition The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael.
- English Word Utas Definition Hence, festivity; merriment.
- English Word Utensil Definition That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.
- English Word Uterine Definition Of or instrument to the uterus, or womb.
- English Word Uterine Definition Born of the same mother, but by a different father.
- English Word Uterogestation Definition Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy.
- English Word Uterovaginal Definition Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.
- English Word Uterus Definition The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.
- English Word Uterus Definition A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.
- English Word Utes Definition An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.