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Show You 're welcome He confum'd the common treafury ‘Whereof he being the fimple ufage Moft learned, rev'rend Sir, into our kingdom Shakefpeare's Henry VII Ule us and it They could #fe both the right hand and the lef But for the fiate, not in propriety Daniel's Civil War Did alien t* his minions in hurling ftones and fhooting arrows 1 Chron. Xile 2 This occafion gav U'sawce. #. /. [ufance, French. 1. Ufe; proper employment What art thou That here in defart haft thine habitance And thefe rich heaps of wealth doft hide apar From the world's eye, and from her right ufance Spenfer For me to /e my wits, which to their heigh Chapman I ftriv'd to fkrew up Two trumpets of filver, that thou mayeft uf Numbers, X. 2 for the calling of the aflfembly He was unhappily too much zfed as a check upon the Lord Coventry; and when that lord perplexed their counfels with inconvenient objeétions the authority of the lord Manehefter was ftill calle upon Clarendon Thefe words of God to Cain, are, by many in 2. Ufury ; intereft paid for.money He lends out money gratis, and brings dow Shakefp. Merchant of Venice The rate of ufance Use. . f. [#fus, Latin. 3. The a& of employing any thing to an terpreters, underftood in a quite different fenf than what our author #/es them in Locke purpofe The fat of the beaft that dieth o ufed in any other uf itfelf, may b makes of it Locke Things may, and muft, differ in their zfe; bu yet they are all to be ufed according to the will o God Law 2. Qualities that make a thing proper fo any purpofe Rice is of excellent ufe for illneffes of the ftomach, that proceed from cold or moift humours a great digefter :md reftorer of appetite. ~ Temple 3. Need of ; occafion on which a thing ca beé employed This will fecure a father to my child That done, I have no farther «fe for life A. Philips 4. Advantage received; power of receiving advantage More figures in a pi¢ture than are neceffary, ou author calls. figures to be let; becaufe the pictur has no «fe for them Dryden's Dufrefunoy its own whic Locke the im provement of knowledge and politenefs, than fom effectual methed for correting, enlarging, and afcertaining our language Saift When will my friendfhip be of #fe to thee A. Philips You thew us Rome was glorious, not profufe And pompous buildings once were things of ufe Pope 6. Ufage ; cuftomary act That which thole nations did ufe, having bee alfo in zfe with others, the antient Roman laws d forbid Hooker He that firft brought the word fham, wheedle or banter, in ufe, put together, as he thought fit thofe ideas he made it ftand for Locke Pratice habit 8. Cuftom ; commo Waller occurrence O Czfar! thefe things are beyond all ufz And I do fear them Shakefpeare's Fulius Cafar ¢. Intereft; mone pai for the ufe o money If it be good, thou haft received it from God and then shou art more obliged to pay duty an tribute, #fe and principal, to him Mof Taylr's Rule of Holy Living of the learned Heathe an Chriftian affert the taking of #/e to be unlawful; yet th divines of the reformed church beyond the feas, d generally affirm it to be lawful % Usk. v. a South's Sermons [ufer, Fr. wfus, Latin. 3. To employ to any purpofe To accultom ; to habituate He that intends to gain th> Olympick prize Mauft u/e himfelf to hunger, heat, and cold Rofcommon Thofe who think only of the matter, #fe themfelves only to fpeak extempore. Locke on Educat 1've hitherto been #5'd to thin A blind officious zeal to ferve my king The ruling principle Addifon's Cato A people long #fed to hardfhips lofe by degree the very notions of liberty; they look upon themfelves as at mercy Swift 3. Tostreat Why doft thou zz me thus I know thee not Shake[peare ‘When he came to afk leave of Solyman that h might depart, he was courteoufly #fed of him Knolles I kno My Aurengzebe would ne'er have zs'd me fo Dryden If Virgil or Ovid be thus #fed, *tis no longer t be called their work St an Paul wa whe neithe th thought Dryden not afraid to plead his ow caufe ferve himfelf of law, when others went abou to #fe him with violence, contrary to it Kettleavorth I love to ufe people according to their own fenf of good-breeding Tatler Cato has #5°d me ill; he has refus' His daughter Marcia to my ardent vows Addifor's Cato Gay is zfed as the friends of tories are by whigs and generally by tories too 4. To prattife cuftomarily Pope to Swift Ufe hofpitality one to another, without grudging 1 Peter, iv 5. To behave: with the reciproca noun Out of ufe pro Pray forgive me, if I have ufzd myfelf unmannerly Shakefpeare 70 Usk . 2 They ufe to place him that thall be their captai upon a ftone, always referved for that purpofe, an placed commonly upon a hill Spenfer's State of Ireland In polling of trees, many do /e to leave a boug or two on the top, to help to draw up the fap Bacon A prudent governor, to advance religion, will no confider men's duty, but their prattice; not wha they ought to. do, but what they #/t to do South's-Sermons 2. To be cuftomarily in any manner be wont 3. To frequent ; to inhabit, Obfoler Conduét m In thefe frange ways, where neyer t d‘z-]el,l,fi Snakes that 4fe within th houfe for flzadsfny' Securely lurk, and like a plagu Thy cattle with venom May's Viryi Ye vallies low, where the ild whifpzrs ufirg; Of fhades, and wanton winds and guthing brooks U'sEruL. adj. [ and full ent; profitable to any end; onduciv Milton t Fears 4/e ta bereprefented in fuch an imaginary fafhion, as they rather dazzle men's eyes than ope them Bacon The waters going and returning as the wave and great commotions of the fea ufe to do, retire leifurely Burngt - clean.sh data import.tsv out README 01(' helpful to any purpofe ; valuable fo ufe Providence would onl enter mankind ufeful knowledge of her{reafurcs, leaving :ht:rt:'t to employ our induftry More's Artidote Gold and filver being little ufeful to the li e o man, in proportion to food, raiment, and carri ge has its value only from the confent of men, Locke That the legiflature fhould have power to chang the fucceflion, is very ufeful towards prefervin our religion and liberty Swy'tl. Deliver a particular account of the great and Ufeful things already performed Swift Nex to reading, meditation, and prayer, ther is nothing that fo fecures our hearts from foolit paffions, nothing that preferves {o holy and wife frame of mind as fome ufeful,; humble employ ment of ourfelves Law U'seruLLy. adv. [from zfeful.] Infuc a manner as to help forward fome end I 1. T'o be accuftomed ; to praéife cuftomarily Sweetnefs, trath, and ev'ry grac Which time and ufe are wont to teach The eye may in a moment reach And read diftinétly in her face 2 nor words are drawn from the original help; ufefulnefs Diftinét growth in knowledge carrie light in every ftep of its progreflion; tha nothing is of more /e to the underftanding Nothing would be of greater xfe toward 7 ‘That prince was zfing all his endeavours to introduce popery, which he openly profefled. Sawift Lewiticusy Vile 24 Number the mind makes #Je of in meafuring al things by us meafurable Locke Confider the hiftory, with what /e our autho 5. Convenience U's Ui US this accoun they muft conftitite two a leaft, male and female, in every fpecies; whic chance could not have made fo very nearly alik without copying, nor fo ufefully differing withou Bentley's Sernions contrivance U'seruLnNess. #. /. Conducivenefs o helpfulnefs to fome end T he grandeur of the commonwealth fhows itfel chiefly in works that were neceffary or convenfent On the contrary, the magnificence of Rome, unde the emperors, was rather for oftentation than an {‘Iddlfon real ufefulnefs U'scLEss. adj. [from ufe.] Anfwering n purpofe ; having mo end So have I feen the loft clouds pou Into the fea.an ufelefs thow'r And the vext failors curfe the rain For which poor thepherds pray'd in vain. #allr The hurtful teeth of vipers are #felefs to us, an yet are parts of their bodies Boyle His friend, on whofe affitance he moft relied or looks o either proves falfe and forfakes him with an fe/efs pity, and cannot help him Rogers's Sermons The waterman forlorn along the fhor qfl Penfive reclines upon his ufelefs oar U'seLessLy adv Wlt}l [from ufel 5 out the quality of anfwering any purpoc cuftom o ou fome humour faunterin In let a goo part of their lives run ufelefsly fl"'?' Locke without bufinefs or recreation U'sELESSNEsS #. /. [from ufele 5 Un fitnefs to any end learned difcourfe on the trl:l!.bls% mad H harg Ieffirefsy and. indecency. of foxes wearmg e alls He would convinee them of the vanity :}‘:: "0"{ Lffuefs of that learning, which makes 10 Smli‘ feflor a better man ufe h U'sERr. . /. [from #.] Onew 3)" the deis Ck Such things which, by impartin others, make the ufer thereof welcome, a5 m" Sidnty n d dancing, hunting, feafting, r faire Theti That wind-lik rogenic M »fer of his feet Chapmate d"' ‘:e (:rf s e m c th o f e l}:n-dg recei wick, a lady powerful in the court, a hat wi c v a be th r w p h virtuous z/er o ever given e B o f u [ . U'SHER gt 1. Ong whofe. bufingfs is to 10 |