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6. (Eccl.) 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.
From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use. Pref. to Book of Common Prayer. 7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.]
Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him. Jer. Taylor. 8. [In this sense probably a corruption of OF. oes, fr. L. opus need, business, employment, work. Cf.
Operate.] (Law) 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.
9. (Forging) 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.
Contingent, or Springing, use (Law), a use to come into operation on a future uncertain event. —
In use. (a) In employment; in customary practice observance. (b) In heat; — said especially of mares.
J. H. Walsh. — Of no use, useless; of no advantage. — Of use, useful; of advantage; profitable. —
Out of use, not in employment. — Resulting use (Law), a use, which, being limited by the deed,
expires or can not vest, and results or returns to him who raised it, after such expiration. — Secondary,
or Shifting, use, a use which, though executed, may change from one to another by circumstances.
Blackstone. — Statute of uses (Eng. Law), the stat. 27 Henry VIII., cap. 10, which transfers uses
into possession, or which unites the use and possession. — To make use of, To put to use, to employ; to
derive service from; to use.
Use
(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 uncertain origin. Cf.
Utility.]
1. 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.
Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs. Shak.
Some other means I have which may be used. Milton. 2. To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly. "I will use him well." Shak.
How wouldst thou use me now? Milton.
Cato has used me ill. Addison. 3. To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.
Use hospitality one to another. 1 Pet. iv. 9. 4. 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.
I am so used in the fire to blow. Chaucer.
Thou with thy compeers,
Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels. Milton.
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