- OE. usen, F. user to use, use up, wear out, LL. usare to use, from L. uti, p. p. usus, to use, OL. oetioesus; of uncertain origin. Cf. Utility
- 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.Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs.Some other means I have which may be used.
- To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.I willusehim well.How wouldst thou use me now?Cato has used me ill.
- To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.Use hospitality one to another.
- 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.I am so used in the fire to blow.Thou with thy compeers,Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels.Employ.I would, my son, that thou wouldst use the power Which thy discretion gives thee, to control And manage all.To study nature will thy time employ: Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy.
