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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SPRINGING USE, estates. One to arise on a future event, when no preceding
estate is limited, and does not take effect in derogation of any preceding
interest. Example: a grant is made to A in fee, to the use of B in fee,
after the fourth of July; no use arises till the limited period. The use in
the mean time results to the grantor, who has a determinable fee. A
springing use differs from a resulting use, (q.v.) or a shifting use. (q.v.)
4 Kent, Com. 292; Com. Dig. Uses, K 7 Wils. on Springing Uses; Corn. on
Uses, 91; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1889.