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Use
·vt Common occurrence; ordinary experience. II. Use ·vt Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, ...

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to use
To frequent a place. This word is employed in the following sense among the hunters of the West: 'I ...

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Present
·adj Favorably attentive; propitious. II. Present ·adj To bring an indictment against ... III. Pre...

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present
Put on the back of letters to persons residing in the place where the letter is written. Peculiar to...

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present!
The military word of command to raise the musket, take aim, and fire. ...

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Sarum use
·- A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and ...

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York use
·- The one of the three printed uses of England which was followed in the north. It was based on the...

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to use up
To discomfit; destroy. Grose has this word, which he calls a military one, meaning killed. I have p...

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Present value
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Present worth. ...

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Present worth
·add. ·- The principal which, drawing interest at a given rate, will amount to the given sum at the ...

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Re-present
·vt To present again; as, to re-present the points of an <<Argument>>. ...

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present arms!
The military word of command to salute with the musket. ...

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