·vt Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
II. Use ·vt Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.
III. Use ·vt To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.
IV. Use ·vt Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.
V. Use ·vt The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
VI. Use ·vt Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.
VII. Use ·vt To behave toward; to act with regard to; to Treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.
VIII. Use ·vt 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.
IX. Use ·vt 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.
X. Use ·vi To be accustomed to go; to Frequent; to Inhabit; to Dwell;
— sometimes followed by of.
XI. Use ·vi To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily;
— now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to.".
XII. Use ·vt 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.
XIII. Use ·vt The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.
XIV. Use ·vt 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.
XV. Use ·vt 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.