1. The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom.
Rom. xiii. 7.
2. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
Custom
(Cus"tom), v. t. To pay the customs of. [Obs.] Marlowe.
Customable
(Cus"tom*a*ble) a. [Cf. OF. coustumable.]
1. Customary. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
Customableness
(Cus"tom*a*ble*ness), n. Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [Obs.]
Customably
(Cus"tom*a*bly), adv. Usually. [Obs.] Milton.
Customarily
(Cus"tom*a*ri*ly) adv. In a customary manner; habitually.
Customariness
(Cus"tom*a*ri*ness), n. Quality of being customary.
Customary
(Cus"tom*a*ry) a. [CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer.]
1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
Even now I met him
With customary compliment.
Shak.
A formal customary attendance upon the offices.
South.
2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
Customary
(Cus"tom*a*ry), n. [OF. coustumier, F. coutumier.] A book containing laws and usages,
or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell.
Customer
(Cus"tom*er) n. [A doublet of customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See Custom.]
1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.]
The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey
cloths.
Hakluyt.
2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable,
and then never pays for it.
Goldsmith.
3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray.
4. A peculiar person; — in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] Dickens.
5. A lewd woman. [Obs.] Shak.
Customhouse
(Cus"tom*house") n. The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels
are entered or cleared.
Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods
and vessels.
