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To USU'RP, ». a. [ usurpo, Lat.] To possess by force 
or intrusion; to seize, or possess without right. 
Victorious prince of York ! 
Before I see thee seated in that throne. 
Which now the house of Lancaster usurps. 
These eyes shall never close. Shakspeare. 
USURPATION, s. [usurpation , Fr.] Forcible, unjust, 
illegal seizure or possession. 
The Piercies, 
Finding his usurpation most unjust, 
Endeavour’d my advancement to the throne. Shakspeare. 
Use; usage.—There can be no kind of certainty in any 
such observations of the articles, because the Greeks promis¬ 
cuously often use them or omit them, without any reason of 
their usurpation or omission. Pearson. 
USU'RPER, s . One who seizes or possesses that to which 
he has no right. It is generally used of one who excludes 
the right heir from the throne. 
Richard, duke of York, 
Was rightful heir unto the English crown ; 
And that your majesty was an usurper. Shakspeare. 
USU'RPINGLY, adv. Without just claim. 
Lay aside the sword, 
Which sways usurpingly these several titles. 
And put the same into young Arthur’s hand, 
Thy right royal sovereign. Shakspeare . 
U'SURY, s. [usura, Laf.] Money paid for the use of mo¬ 
ney; interest.—What he borrows from the ancients, he re¬ 
pays with usury of his own; in coin as good, and almost as 
universally valuable. Dryden. —The practice of taking inter¬ 
est. It is commonly used with some reproach— Usury bring- 
eth the treasure of arealm into few hands: for the usurer being 
at certainties, and others at uncertainties, at the end, most of 
the money will be in the box. Bacon. 
USWORTH, Great and Little, adjoining hamlets 
of England, forming one township, in the county of Durham; 
4 miles south-east of Gateshead. Population 1277. 
UTAWAS RIVER, a river in North America, which 
forms the boundary between the provinces of Upper and 
Lower Canada. It makes part of that succession of lakes 
and rivers by which the fur traders of Canada penetrate into 
the interior of the continent; and though its course is consi¬ 
derably interrupted by cascades and rapids, these adventurers 
contrive to transport their loaded canoes overall the obstacles 
by which its navigation is obstructed. It has its source in 
the mountains of the interior, and, after a course of mere 
than 400 miles, falls into the St. Lawrence in the vicinity of 
Montreal. It receives in its course the waters of the lake 
Timmiskamain. It is sometimes called Montreal river. 
UTCHIVAO, a river of Guiana, which runs north, and 
enters the Paraguay, near the entrance of this latter into the 
Caroni. 
UTELLE, a small town in the north-west of Italy, in the 
Piedmontese province of Nice; 15 miles east-by-north of 
Nice. 
UTEN, or Cauten, a river of Chili, which rises in 
the Andes, runs west, and enters the Pacific ocean. Lat. 
38.44. S. 
UTE'NSIL, s. [ utensi/e , Low Lat.] An instrument for 
any use, such as the vessels of the kitchen, or tools of a 
trade. 
Burn but his books; he has brave utensils. 
Which, when he has a house, he’ll deck withal. Shakspeare. 
U'TERINE, ad/. [uterin , Fr.; uterinus, Lat.] Belong¬ 
ing to the womb.—In hot climates, and where the uterine 
parts exceed in heat, by the coldness of some simple, they 
may be reduced unto a conceptive constitution. Brown .— 
Born of the same mother, but having a different father.— 
He was nephew to him by his brother uterine, Edmond Tu¬ 
dor. Sir G. Buck. 
UTEROW, a village of Austrian Poland, circleof Stanis- 
lawow. 
TJ T R 
UTERUS, s. [Latin.] The womb. 
UTICA, a post village of the United States, in Oneida 
county, New York, in the township of Whitestown, on the 
south bank of the Mehawk; 4 miles south-east of Whitesbo- 
rough, and 93 west-by-north of Albany. 
UTIEL, an inland town of the south of Spain, in the pro¬ 
vince of La Mancha ; 58 miles south-east of Cuenza. 
UTILA, an island in the gulf of Honduras, about 30 miles 
from the coast; about 15 miles long and 5 broad. Lat. 16. 
4. N. long. 87. 45. W.—It is also the name of a small 
river which falls into the sea. 
UTI'LITY, s. [utilite , Fr.; utilitas, Lat.] Usefulness; 
profit; convenience; advantageousness: applied to things 
only : as, this book is of great utility ; not, this book was 
written for the utility of scholars.—Those things which have 
long gone together, are confederate; whereas new things 
piece not so well; but though they help by their utility, yet 
they trouble by their inconformity. Bacon. 
UTIS, s. A word which probably is corrupted, at least, 
is not now understood. Utis was the octave of a saint’s day, 
and may perhaps be taken for any festivity. Dr. Johnson. 
—Utas is the word in our old lexicography, [eahta, Sax., 
octavse festi alicujus. Skinner. Fr. huit, octo.] Then 
here will be old utis: it will be an excellent stratagem. Shak¬ 
speare. 
UTKINSK, the name of two very large villages in the 
east of European Russia, in the government of Perm, on 
the borders of Asia. The inhabitants are chiefly employed 
in iron works in the vicinity; 48 miles west-by-north of 
Ekaterineburg. 
UTKINTON, a township of England, in the county of 
Chester, one mile north-west-by-west of Tarporley. Popu¬ 
lation 497. 
UTMOST, adj. [ufcmcej-p, Saxon, from ufctep.] Ex¬ 
treme; placed at the extremity. 
I went, by your command, 
To view the utmost limits of the land. Dryden 
Being in the highest degree. 
I’ll undertake to bring him, 
Where he shall answer by a lawful form, 
In peace to his utmost, peril. Shakspeare. 
UTMOST, s. The most that can be; the greatest power; 
the highest degree; the greatest effort. 
What miscarries, 
Shall be the general’s fault, though he perform 
To the utmost of a man. Shakspeare'. 
UTO'PIAN, or Uto'pical, adj. [from Sir Thomas More’s 
Utopia, or imaginary commonwealth; Gr. ev, hene, and 
r ovoq, locus.'] Ideal; not real. Bullokar has utopian, which 
he terms imaginary, feigned, fabulous.—Let no idle Donatist 
of Amsterdam dream hence of an utopical perfection. Bp. 
Hall. 
UTQUVU, a small river of Guiana, in Surinam, which 
enters theCamarin. 
UTRECHT, one of the Dutch provinces, bounded on 
the west by Holland, on the north by the Zuyder Zee, and 
on the east by Gelderland. Its surface is level, with the 
exception of the south quarter, where the monotonous as¬ 
pect of the Dutch scenery begins to be exchanged for a slight 
variety of vale and eminence. The soil in some parts is 
sandy, and fit for little but raising wood; in general, how¬ 
ever, it affords good pasture. The extent of the province is 
about 490 square miles; its population about 110,000, It 
is traversed by branches of the Rhine, and has a better supply 
of springs and streams than the maritime provinces, as well 
as a purer atmosphere. It sends eight deputies to the repre¬ 
sentative body of the Netherlands, and is divided into nine 
cantons. 
UTRECHT, a well known city of the Netherlands, and 
capital of the preceding province, is situated on a branch of 
the Rhine called the Old Rhine, by which it is divided into 
two parts. The position of Utrecht is healthy, and exempt 
from the disadvantages of damp, so common in Dutch 
towns. 
