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Use \Use\, n. [OE. us use, usage, L. usus, from uti, p. p. usus,
   to use. See {Use}, v. t.]
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   1. 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.
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            Books can never teach the use of books. --Bacon.
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            This Davy serves you for good uses.   --Shak.
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            When he framed
            All things to man's delightful use.   --Milton.
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   2. Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no
      further use for a book. --Shak.
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   3. Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of
      being used; usefulness; utility.
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            God made two great lights, great for their use
            To man.                               --Milton.
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            'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. --Pope.
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   4. Continued or repeated practice; customary employment;
      usage; custom; manner; habit.
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            Let later age that noble use envy.    --Spenser.
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            How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
            Seem to me all the uses of this world! --Shak.
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   5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. [R.]
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            O Caesar! these things are beyond all use. --Shak.
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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.
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            From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but
            one use.                              --Pref. to
                                                  Book of Common
                                                  Prayer.
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   7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of
      borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.]
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            Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use
            and principal, to him.                --Jer. Taylor.
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   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.
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   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.
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   {Contingent use}, 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 use}, 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.
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