| Use |
v. t. |
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. |
| Use |
v. t. |
Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book. |
| Use |
v. t. |
Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility. |
| Use |
v. t. |
Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit. |
| Use |
v. t. |
Common occurrence; ordinary experience. |
| Use |
v. t. |
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. |
| Use |
v. t. |
The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. |
| 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. |
