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 Cæsar! 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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Use (?), v. i. 1. 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.”
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They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone. Spenser.
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Fears use to be represented in an imaginary. Bacon.
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Thus we use to say, it is the room that smokes, when indeed it is the fire in the room. South.
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Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp. Ex. xxxiii. 7 (Rev. Ver.)
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2. To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of. [Obs.] “Where never foot did use.” Spenser.
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He useth every day to a merchant's house. B. Jonson.
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Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use
Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks. Milton.
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