Usager
Us″a‐ger (?), n. [F. usager.] One who has the use of anything in trust for another. Daniel.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Usance
Us″ance (?), n. [F. See Use, v. t.]1. Use; usage; employment. Spenser.2. Custom; practice; usage. Gower. Chaucer.3. Interest paid for money; usury. Shak.4. (Com.) The time, fixe...
Usant
Us″ant (?), a. Using; accustomed. “Usant for to steal.” Chaucer.
Usbegs
{ Us″begs (?), Us″beks (?), } n. pl.(Ethnol.) A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called Turkestan. [Writt...
Use
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...
Use (2)
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 ...
Use (3)
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 s...
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; benefici...
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.
Useless
Use″less, 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 u...
User
Us″er (?), n. 1. One who uses. Shak.2. (Law) Enjoyment of property; use. Mozley & W.
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. ...
Usher (2)
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;...
Usherance
Ush″er‐ance (?), n. The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in. Shaftesbury.
Usherdom
Ush″er‐dom (?), n. The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
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...
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. βίοσ life. See Quick, a., and cf. Whisky.]1. A compound distill...
Usself
Us′self″ (?), n. pl. Ourselves. Wyclif. Piers Plowman. Chaucer.
Ustion
Us″tion (?), n. [L. ustio, fr. urere, ustum, to burn: cf. F. ustion.] The act of burning, or the state of being burned. Johnson.
Ustorious
Us‐to″ri‐ous (?), a. [L. urere, ustum, to burn.] Having the quality of burning. 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. Sir W. Petty.2. (Old Chem.) The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur...