| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| usage | noun | The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage., Manners; conduct; behavior., Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method., Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification., Experience. |
| usant | adjective | Using; accustomed. |
| using | present participle & vb. noun | of Use |
| usher | noun | An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc., An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school., To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; — sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room. |
| usnea | noun | A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests. |
| usnic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens (Usnea, Parmelia, etc.). |
| usual | noun | Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. |
| usure | verb i. | To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest., Usury. |
| usurp | verb t. | To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him., To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper. |
| usury | verb t. | A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest., The practice of taking interest., Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money. |