use 
If this citizen had not ... proffered her her diet and 
lodging under the name of my sister, I could not have told 
what shift to have made, for the greatest part of my money 
is revolted ; we'll make more use of him. 
Dekker ami Webster, Northward Ho, ii. 2. 
Constant Use ev'n Flint and Steel impairs. 
Conyfeve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
2. That property of a thing (or character of a 
person) which renders it sxiitable for a pur- 
pose ; adaptability to the attainment of an end ; 
usefulness; availability; utility; serviceable- 
ness; service; convenience; help; profit: as, 
a thing of no use. 
God made two great lights, great for their use 
To man. Milton, P. L., vii. 346. 
We have no doubt that the ancient controversies were 
of use, in so far as they served to exercise the faculties of 
the disputants. Macaulay, Lord Bacon. 
It [a sitting] might as well last to Sunday morning, as 
there is no use in making more than two bites at a cherry. 
Punch, No. 2066, p. 64. 
3. Need for employing; occasion to employ; 
necessity; exigency; need. 
Be not acknown on 't [handkerchief] ; I have use for it. 
Shak., Othello, iii. 3. 319. 
Heaven has begun the work, 
And blest us all ; let our endeavours follow, 
To preserve this blessing to our timely uses. 
Fletcher, Wile for a Month, v. 1. 
4. Continued or repeated practice or employ- 
ment; custom; wont; usage; habit. 
Long use and experience hath found out many things 
commodious for man's life. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. 
How use doth breed a habit in a man ! 
Shak., T. G. of V., v. 4. 1. 
Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent consid- 
erations of duty familiarity with danger enabling him to 
estimate the danger. Emerson, Courage. 
5. Common occurrence ; ordinary experience. 
[Bare.] 
O Ceesar ! these things are beyond all use, 
And I do fear them. Shak., J. G., ii. 2. 25. 
6. Interest for money; usury. [Obsolete or 
archaic.] 
D. Pedro. You have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. 
Beat. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile ; and I gave 
him use for it, a double heart for his single one. 
Shale., Much Ado, ii. 1. 288. 
Human life 
Is but a loan to be repaid with use, 
When He shall call his debtors to account. 
Cowper, Task, iii. 
7f. That part of a sermon devoted to a practi- 
cal application of the doctrine expounded. 
The parson has an edifying stomach, . . . 
He hath begun three draughts of sack in doctrines, 
And four in uses. B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, iii. 1. 
8. In liturgies, the distinctive ritual and litur- 
gical forms and observances, collectively and 
singly, of a particular church, diocese, group of 
dioceses, or community: as, Sarum use; Aber- 
deen use; Anglican use; Eoman use. The term 
is most frequently applied to the varieties of ritual and 
liturgical usage in England before the Reformation and to 
monastic and Roman usage as differing from these, and 
also to the different local varieties of the ancient Gallican 
offices. In England the several uses were those of Sarum, 
York, Hereford, Bangor, Lincoln, etc. These had a com- 
mon family likeness, and differed considerably from Ro- 
man use. The most important of them was Sarum or 
Salisbury use, which was the form of service compiled 
about 1085 from various diocesan uses, English and Nor- 
man, by St. Osmund, bishop of Salisbury and chancellor 
of England. The use of Sarnm prevailed throughout the 
greater part of England, and in 1542 it was ordered to 
be observed throughout the whole province of Canterbury. 
The Book of Common Prayer, first issued in 1549, and 
founded mainly on Salisbury use, established a uniform 
liturgy for the whole Church of England, but, except by 
implication of certain rubrics, left the exact mode of 
ritual observance in many respects unprovided lor. See 
liturgy, 3 (4). Sarum use. See def. 8. To have no 
use for. (ft) To have no occasion or need for ; be unable 
to convert to a profitable end ; not to want. 
More figures in a picture than are necessary, our authors 
call figures to be let, because the picture has no use for 
them. Dryden. 
(b) To have no liking for. [U. S.] 
"I have no use for him " don't like him. 
Trans. Amer. Philol. Ait., XVII. 46. 
To make use of, to put in use ; employ. 
Make use of time. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 129. 
Use and wont, use and custom, the common or cus- 
tomary practice. 
use 1 (uz), v. ; pret. and pp. used, ppr. using. [< 
ME. usen, < OF. (and F.) user = Sp. Pg. usar = 
It. usare = ML. nsare, use, employ, practise, 
etc., freq. of L. uti, pp. usus, use: see use 1 , n.] 
I. trans. 1. To employ for the attainment of 
some purpose or end; avail one's self of. () TO 
make use of: as, to use a plow; to use a book. 
Alwaies in your hands me eyther Corall or yellow Am- 
ber, or a Chalcedonium, or a sweet Pommander, or some 
like precious stone, to be worne in a ring vpon the little 
finger of the left hand. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 257. 
6674 
Lancelot Gobbo, use your legs. Shak. , M. of V., ii. 2. 5. 
We need not use long circumstance of words. 
Beau, and FL, Laws of Candy, i. 2. 
I am not at my own dispose ; I am u&iny his talents, and 
all the gain must be his. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, i. 2. 
Since the winds were pleased this waif to blow 
Unto my door, a fool I were indeed 
If I should fail to use her for my need. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 266. 
(b) To employ ; expend ; consume : as, to use flour for 
food ; to use water for irrigation. 
Instant occasion to use fifty talents. 
Shak., T. of A., iii. 1. 19. 
(c) To practise or employ, in a general way ; do, exercise, 
etc. 
He setteth out the cruelness of the emperor's soldiers, 
which they used at Rome. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc.), p. 188. 
They 
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance. 
Shak., Tempest, iii. 3. 16. 
We have us'd all means 
To find the cause of her disease, yet cannot 
Beau, and Fl., Custom of the Country, v. 4. 
Deeds and language such as men do use. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Prol. 
In prosperity he gratefully admires the bounty of the 
Almighty giver, and uieth, not abuseth plenty. 
Habington, Castara, iii. 
He was questioned about some speeches he had used in 
the ship lately, in his return out of England. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 324. 
(d) To practise customarily ; make a practice of. 
To dampne a man without answere of word ; 
And, for a lord, that is ful foul to use. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 402, 
O what falsehood is used in England yea, in the whole 
world ! Latimer, Misc. Selections. 
As for Drunkenness, 'tis True, it may be us'd without 
Scandal. Ettiereye, She Would if She Could, i. 1. 
Prodigal! in their expence, vsing dicing, dauncing, 
dronkennes. Lyly, Enphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 147. 
Use hospitality one to another. 1 Pet. iv. 9. 
2. To act or behave toward ; treat : as, to use 
one well or ill. 
In government it is good to use men of one rank equally. 
Bacon, Followers and Friends (ed. 1887). 
Oh, brave lady, thou art worthy to have servants, 
To be commandress of a family, 
Thou knowest how to use and govern it I 
Beau, and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, iii. 3. 
When Pompey liv'd, 
He us'd you nobly ; now he is dead, use him so. 
Fletcher (and another), False One, ii. 1. 
'Sdeath! what a brute am I to use her thus ! 
Sheridan, The Rivals, iii. 2. 
3. To accustom; habituate; render familiar 
by practice ; inure : common in the past parti- 
ciple : as, soldiers used to hardships. 
About eighteene veers agone, hauing pupils at Cam- 
bridge studious of the Latiue tongue, I vsed them often to 
write Epistles and Theames together, and dailie to trans- 
late some peece of English into Latine. 
Baret, Alvearie (1580), To the Reader. 
It will next behoove us to consider the inconvenience we 
fall into by using our selves to bee guided by these kind of 
Testimonies. Milton, Prelatical Episcopacy. 
If it be one of the baser consolations, it is also one of the 
most disheartening concomitants of long life, that we get 
used to everything. Lowell, Wordsworth. 
4. To frequent ; visit often or habitually. 
And zif the Jlerchauntes meden als moche that Centre 
as thei don Cathay, it wolde ben better than Cathay in a 
schort while. Mandeville, Travels, p. 307. 
It goes against my conscience to tarry so long in honest 
company ; but my comfort is, I do not use it. 
Shirley, Grateful Servant, ii. 1. 
These many years, even from my youth, have I used the 
seas ; in which time the Lord God hath delivered me from 
a multitude of dangers. 
K. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 351). 
"I was better off once, sir," he did not fail to tell every- 
body who used the room. Thackeray. 
5f. To comport; behave; demean: used re- 
flexively. 
Now will I declare how the citizens use themselves one 
to another. Sir T. More, Utopia, tr. by Robinson, ii. 6. 
6t. To have sexual intercourse with. Chaucer. 
To use up. (a) To consume entirely by using ; use the 
whole of. 
There is only a certain amount of energy in the present 
constitution of the sun ; and, when that has been used up, 
the sun cannot go on giving out any more heat. 
W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 222. 
(b) To exhaust, as one's means or strength ; wear out ; leave 
no force or capacity in : as, the man is completely used up. 
IColloq.] 
Before we saw the Spanish Main, half were " gastados," 
used up, as the Dons say, with the scurvy. 
Kingsley, Westward Ho, i. 
But what is coffee but a noxious berry, 
Born to keep used-up Londoners awake? 
C. S. Calverley, Beer. 
II. intrans. 1. To be accustomed; practise 
customarily; be in the habit: as, he used to go 
there regularly. 
use 
Also there, faste by, be .ij. stones ; vpon one of them our 
Siiuyoure Criste vsed to sytte and preche to his disciples. 
Sir R. Guylfordf, Pylgrymage, p. 19. 
Sir, if you come to rail, pray quit my house ; 
I do not use to have such language given 
Within my doors to me. 
Beau, and Fl., Coxcomb, iv. 2. 
As thou west to do unto those that love thy name. 
Ps. cxix. 132. 
So when they came to the door they went in, not knock- 
ing ; for folks use not to knock at the door of an inn. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 
2. To be wont; be customary; customarily be, 
do, or effect something specified. 
Of Court, it seemes, men Courtesie doe call, 
For that it there most useth to abound. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. i. 1. 
Madam, your beauty uses to command, 
And not to beg ! what is your suit to me ? 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, iii. 1. 
How alter'd is each pleasant nook ; 
And used the dumpy church to look 
So dumpy in the spire ? 
Locker, Bramble-rise. 
3. To be accustomed to go; linger or stay 
habitually; dwell. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
This fellow useth to the fencing-school, this to the 
dancing school. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, p. 164. 
I will give thee for thy food 
No fish that useth in the mud. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, iii. 1. 
Ders er ole gray rat wat uses T>out yer, en time alter 
time he comes out w'en you all done gond ter bed, . . . 
en me en him talks by de 'our. 
J. C. Harris, Uncle Remus, xiv. 
4f. To communicate ; receive the eucharist. 
And the to torches, eueri day in the ger, scullen hen light 
and breunynge at the heye messe at selue auter, from the 
leuacioun of cristis body sacrid, in til that the priest haue 
mud. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 27. 
When the preste hath don his masse, 
Vsed, & his hondes wasche, 
A-nofhur oryson he moste say. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 91. 
use 2 (us), . [< ME. *ues, *oes, oyss, < OF. ues, 
oes, noes, eus, os, oeps, obs = Pr. obs = OSp. hue- 
vos = It. uopo, profit, advantage, use, need, < L. 
opus, work, labor, need, AL. use, in legal sense : 
see opus. The word use 2 has been confused with 
ttse 1 , with which it is now practically identical.] 
In law, the benefit or profit (with power to direct 
disposal) of property technically of lands and 
tenements in the possession of another who 
simply holds them f or thebeneficiary; the equit- 
able ownership of lands the legal title to which 
is in another. He to whose use or benefit the trust is 
intended enjoys the use of profits, and is called cestui que 
use. Since the Statute of Uses, the gift or grant of real 
property to the use of a person transfers to him directly 
the legal title ; and the term trust is now commonly used 
to denote the kind of estate formerly signified by use, so 
far as the law now permits it to exist. (See trusts, 5.) 
Uses apply only to lands of inheritance ; no use can subsist 
of leaseholds. 
And use is a trust or confidence reposed in some other. 
Sir E. Coke, Com. on Littleton, 272 b. 
Use seems to be an older word than trust. Its first oc- 
currence in statute law is in 7 Ric. II. c. 12, in the form 
ceps. InLittleton "conndence"istheword employed. The 
Statute of Uses seems to regard use, trust, and confidence 
as synonymous. According to Bacon, it was its perma- 
nency that distinguished the use from the trust. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 596. 
Charitable uses. Charitable Uses Act See charitable. 
Covenant to stand seized to uses. See covenant. 
Domain of use. See domain. Executed use. See:re- 
cuted. Executory uses, springing uses. Feoffee to 
uses. See feoffee. Ferial use.Festal use. See ferial. 
Future or contingent use, a use limited to a person 
not ascertained, or depending on an uncertain event, but 
without derogation of a use previously limited. In use. 
(a) In employment, (b) In customary practice or observ- 
ance. 
When abjurations were in use in this land, the state and 
law were satisfied if the abjuror came to the sea-side, and 
waded into the sea when winds and tides resisted. 
Donne, Letters, vii. 
Pious uses, religious uses ; more specifically, that class 
of religious uses which was not condemned by the law as 
superstitious. Public use. See public. Religious uses, 
uses or trusts for the propagation of religion, the support 
of religious institutions, or the performance of religious 
rites. Resulting use. See result, v. i. Secondary 
use. Same as shifting use. Shifting use, a use or trust 
properly created for the benefit of one person, but so as 
to pass from him upon a specified contingency and vest 
wholly or in part in another. Thus, if A enfeoffed B to 
the use of C and his heirs, but if C should die or should 
inherit another estate in the lifetime of A, then to D and 
his heirs, the occurrence of the contingency would cause 
the use (and therefore, under the Statute of Uses, the legal 
title) to shift from C to D. Springing use, the creation 
of an estate so as to arise (spring into effect) on a future 
event, after an estate enjoyed by the grantor, by means 
of a feoffment or conveyance under the Statute of Uses. 
Statute of charitable uses. See statute. Statute 
Of Uses, an English statute of 1536 (27 Hen. VIII., c. 10) 
against uses and against devising lands by will (a prac- 
tice which tended to defeat feudal dues), and intended to 
give the legal estate or absolute ownership to those who 
are entitled to the beneficial enjoyment of land. The prin- 
cipal clause enacted that thereafter whoever should have 
