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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Use \Use\, n. [OE. us use usage, L. usus, from uti, p. p. usus, to use See {Use}, v. t.] 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 Books can never teach the use of books. --Bacon. This Davy serves you for good uses. --Shak. When he framed All things to man's delightful use --Milton. 2. Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as to have no further use for a book. --Shak. 3. Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used usefulness; utility. God made two great lights, great for their use To man. --Milton. 'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. --Pope. 4. Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit. Let later age that noble use envy. --Spenser. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! --Shak. 5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. [R.] O C[ae]sar! these things are beyond all use --Shak. 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 From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use --Pref. to Book of Common Prayer. 7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.] Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him --Jer. Taylor. 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. 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. {Contingent}, 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}, 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Contingent \Con*tin"gent\, a. [L. contingens, -entis, p. pr of contingere to touch on all sides, to happen; con- + tangere to touch: cf F. contingent. See {Tangent}, {Tact}.] 1. Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual. Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage. --Burke. 2. Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control. ``Uncertain and contingent causes.'' --Tillotson. 3. (Law) Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. --Blackstone. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Contingent \Con*tin"gent\, n. 1. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency. His understanding could almost pierce into future contingets --South. 2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops. From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms. --Milman. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: contingent adj 1: possible but not certain to occur; "they had to plan for contingent expenses" 2: determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress" [syn: {contingent on(p)}, {dependent on(p)}, {dependant on(p)}, {depending on(p)}] 3: uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances; "the results of confession were not contingent, they were certain"- George Eliot n 1: a gathering of persons representative of some larger group "each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics" 2: a temporary military unit; "the peace-keeping force includes one British contingent" [syn: {detail}]
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