Usage
Us´age, n. [F. usage, LL. usaticum. See Use.]
1. 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.
"My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty." Shak.
2. Manners; conduct; behavior. [Obs.]
"A gentle nymph was found, Hight Astery, excelling all the crew In courteous usage." Spenser.
3. Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method. Chaucer.
"It has now been, during many years, the grave and decorous usage of Parliaments to hear, in respectful silence, all expressions, acceptable or unacceptable, which are uttered from the throne." Macaulay.
4. Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.
5. Experience. [Obs.]
"In eld [old age] is both wisdom and usage." Chaucer.
Syn. — Custom; use; habit. — Usage, Custom. These words, as here compared, agree in expressing the idea of habitual practice; but a custom is not necessarily a usage. A custom may belong to many, or to a single individual. A usage properly belongs to the great body of a people. Hence, we speak of usage, not of custom, as the law of language. Again, a custom is merely that which has been often repeated, so as to have become, in a good degree, established. A usage must be both often repeated and of long standing. Hence, we speak of a "hew custom," but not of a "new usage." Thus, also the "customs of society" is not so strong an expression as the "usages of society." "Custom, a greater power than nature, seldom fails to make them worship." Locke. "Of things once received and confirmed by use, long usage is a law sufficient." Hooker. In law, the words usage and custom are often used interchangeably, but the word custom also has a technical and restricted sense. See Custom, n. , 3.

Usance
Us´ance, n. [F. See Use, v. t.]
1. Use; usage; employment. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Custom; practice; usage. [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.
3. Interest paid for money; usury. [Obs.] Shak.
4. (Com.) 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.

Use, n. [OE. us use, usage, L. usus, from uti, p. p. usus, to use. See Use, v. t.]
1. 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.
"Books can never teach the use of books." Bacon.
"This Davy serves you for good uses." Shak.
"When he framed All things to man’s delightful use." Milton.
2. Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as to have no further use for a book. Shak.
3. Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.
"God made two great lights, great for their use To man." Milton.
"’T is use alone that sanctifies expense." Pope.
4. Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.
"Let later age that noble use envy." Spenser.
"How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world!" Shak.
5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. [R.]
"O Caesar! these things are beyond all use." Shak.
6. (Eccl.) 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.
"From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use." Pref. to Book of Common Prayer.
7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.]
"Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him." Jer. Taylor.
8. [In this sense probably a corruption of OF. oes, fr. L. opus need, business, employment, work. Cf. Operate.] (Law) 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.
9. (Forging) 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. Contingent, or Springing, use (Law), a use to come into operation on a future uncertain event. — In use. (a) In employment; in customary practice observance. (b) In heat; — said especially of mares. J. H. Walsh. — Of no use, useless; of no advantage. — Of use, useful; of advantage; profitable. — Out of use, not in employment. — Resulting use (Law), a use, which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and results or returns to him who raised it, after such expiration. — Secondary, or Shifting, use, a use which, though executed, may change from one to another by circumstances. Blackstone. — Statute of uses (Eng. Law), the stat. 27 Henry VIII., cap. 10, which transfers uses into possession, or which unites the use and possession. — To make use of, To put to use, to employ; to derive service from; to use.

Use, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Used p. pr. & vb. n. Using.] [OE. usen, F. user to use, use up, wear out, LL. usare to use, from L. uti, p. p. usus, to use, OL. oeti, oesus; of uncertain origin. Cf. Utility.]
1. 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.
"Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs." Shak.
"Some other means I have which may be used." Milton.
2. To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as to use a beast cruelly. "I will use him well." Shak.
"How wouldst thou use me now?" Milton.
"Cato has used me ill." Addison.
3. To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as to use diligence in business.
"Use hospitality one to another." 1 Pet. iv. 9.
4. 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.
"I am so used in the fire to blow." Chaucer.
"Thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw’st his triumphant wheels." Milton. To use one’s self, to behave. [Obs.] "Pray, forgive me, if I have used myself unmannerly." Shak. — To use up. (a) To consume or exhaust by using; to leave nothing of; as to use up the supplies. (b) To exhaust; to tire out; to leave no capacity of force or use in; to overthrow; as he was used up by fatigue. [Colloq.]
Syn. — Employ. — Use, Employ. We use a thing, or make use of it, when we derive from it some enjoyment or service. We employ it when we turn that service into a particular channel. We use words to express our general meaning; we employ certain technical terms in reference to a given subject. To make use of, implies passivity in the thing; as to make use of a pen; and hence there is often a material difference between the two words when applied to persons. To speak of "making use of another" generally implies a degrading idea, as if we had used him as a tool; while employ has no such sense. A confidential friend is employed to negotiate; an inferior agent is made use of on an intrigue.
"I would, my son, that thou wouldst use the power Which thy discretion gives thee, to control And manage all." Cowper.
"To study nature will thy time employ: Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy." Dryden.

Use, v. i.
1. 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."
"They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone." Spenser.
"Fears use to be represented in an imaginary." Bacon.
"Thus we use to say, it is the room that smokes, when indeed it is the fire in the room." South.
"Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp." Ex. xxxiii. 7 (Rev. Ver.)
2. To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; — sometimes followed by of. [Obs.] "Where never foot did use." Spenser.
"He useth every day to a merchant’s house." B. Jonson.
"Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks." Milton.

Useful
Use´ful, 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.
"To what can I useful!" Milton.

Usefully
Use´ful•ly, adv. In a useful manner.

Usefulness
Use´ful•ness, n. The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison.
Syn. — Utility; value; profit. See Utility.

Usher
Ush´er, n. [OE. ussher, uschere, OF. ussier, uisser, oissier, hussier, huissier, fr. L. ostiarius a doorkeeper, fr. ostium a door, entrance, fr. os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Ostiary.]
1. 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. "The ushers and the squires." Chaucer.
"These are the ushers of Marcius." Shak. There are various officers of this kind attached to the royal household in England, including the gentleman usher of the black rod, who attends in the House of Peers during the sessions of Parliament, and twelve or more gentlemen ushers. See Black rod.
2. An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

Usher
Ush´er, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ushered p. pr. & vb. n. Ushering.] 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.
"The stars that usher evening rose." Milton.
"The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author." Addison.

Usherdom
Ush´er•dom, n. The office or position of an usher; ushership; also ushers, collectively. [R.]

Usherless
Ush´er•less, a. Destitute of an usher. Marston.

Ushership
Ush´er•ship, n. The office of an usher; usherdom.

Usitative
Us´i•ta•tive, a. [L. usitari to use often.] Denoting usual or customary action. "The usitative aorist." Alford.

Usnea
Us´ne•a, n. [NL., from Ar. usnah moss.] (Bot.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests.

Usnic
Us´nic, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens ( Usnea, Parmelia, etc.).

Usquebaugh
Us´que•baugh, n. [Ir. or Gael. uisge beatha, literally, water of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi•os life. See Quick, a. , and cf. Whisky.]
1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky.
"The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh." Sir W. Scott.
2. A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices. Brande & C.

Ustion
Us´tion, n. [L. ustio, fr. urere, ustum, to burn: cf. F. ustion.] The act of burning, or the state of being burned. [R.] Johnson.

Ustorious
Us•to´ri•ous, a. [L. urere, ustum, to burn.] Having the quality of burning. [R.] I. Watts.

Ustulate
Us´tu•late, a. [L. ustulatus, p. p. of ustulare to scorch, urere to burn.] Blackened as if burned.

Ustulation
Us•tu•la´tion, n. [Cf. F. ustulation.]
1. The act of burning or searing. [R.] Sir W. Petty.
2. (Old Chem.) The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.
3. (Pharm.) (a) The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing. (b) The burning of wine.
4. Lascivious passion; concupiscence. [Obs.]
"It is not certain that they took the better part when they chose ustulation before marriage, expressly against the apostle." Jer. Taylor.

Usual
U´su•al, a. [L. usualis, from usus use: cf. F. usuel. See Use, n. ] Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.
"Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times." Hooker.
"We can make friends of these usual enemies." Baxter. — U´su•al•ly, adv. — U´su•al•ness, n.

Usufruct
U´su•fruct ( 277), n. [L. usufructus, ususfructus, usus et fructus; usus use + fructus fruit.] (Law) The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance. Burrill.

Usufructuary
U•su•fruc´tu•a•ry, n. [L. usufructuarius.] (Law) A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it. Wharton.

Usufructuary
U•su•fruc´tu•a•ry, a. (Law) Of or pertaining to a usufruct; having the nature of a usufruct.
"The ordinary graces bequeathed by Christ to his church, as the usufructuary property of all its members." Coleridge. { U•su•ra´ri•ous, U´su•ra•ry } a. [L. usurarius that serves for use, that pays interest. See Usurer.] Usurious. [Obs.] "Usurarious contracts." Jer. Taylor. Bp. Hall.

Usurer
U´su•rer, n. [F. usurier, LL. usurarius. See Usury, and cf. Usurarious.]
1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. [Obs.]
"If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury." Ex. xxii. 25.
2. 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.
"He was wont to call me usurer." Shak.

Usurpant
U•surp´ant, a. [L. usurpans, p. pr.] Usurping; encroaching. [Obs.] Gauden.

Usurpation
U•sur•pa´tion, n. [L. usurpatio making use, usurpation: cf. F. usurpation.]
1. 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.
"He contrived their destruction, with the usurpation of the regal dignity upon him." Sir T. More.
"A law [of a State] which is a usurpation upon the general government." O. Ellsworth.
"Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States." D. Webster. Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, formerly denoted the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by a stranger presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who us thereupon admitted and instituted.
2. Use; usage; custom. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Usurpatory
U•surp´a•to•ry, a. [L. usurpatorius.] Marked by usurpation; usurping. [R.]

Usurpature
U•surp´a•ture, n. Usurpation. [R.] "Beneath man’s usurpature." R. Browning.

Usurper
U•surp´er, n. 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.
"A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it." South.

Usurpingly
U•surp´ing•ly, adv. In a usurping manner.

Usury
U´su•ry, n. [OE. usurie, usure, F. usure, L. usura use, usury, interest, fr. uti, p. p. usus, to use. See Use, v. t.]
1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. [Obs. or Archaic]
"Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury." Deut. xxiii. 19.
"Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchanges, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury." Matt. xxv. 27.
"What he borrows from the ancients, he repays with usury of is own." Dryden.
2. The practice of taking interest. [Obs.]
"Usury … bringeth the treasure of a realm or state into a few nds." Bacon.
3. (Law) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money. The practice of requiring in repayment of money lent anything more than the amount lent, was formerly thought to be a great moral wrong, and the greater, the more was taken. Now it is not deemed more wrong to take pay for the use of money than for the use of a house, or a horse, or any other property. But the lingering influence of the former opinion, together with the fact that the nature of money makes it easier for the lender to oppress the borrower, has caused nearly all Christian nations to fix by law the rate of compensation for the use of money. Of late years, however, the opinion that money should be borrowed and repaid, or bought and sold, upon whatever terms the parties should agree to, like any other property, has gained ground everywhere. Am. Cyc.