urzella

[West African native name of the plant.] Bot. & Comm.: Roccella fusiform is , a dye-lichen exported from Western Africa. us, * ous , *ows, pron . [A. S. ús (dat.), ús , úsic , u ic (acc us. pl.); cogn. with Dut. ons; Icel. o (acc us. & dat.); Sw.o ; Dan.os; Ger. uns ; Goth. uns, uns is.] The plural of the first personal pronoun. Used (1) As the accusative, or direct object, of we . "Lead us not into temptation."- Matt . vi. 13. (2) As the dative, or indirect object, of we . "Give us this day our daily bread."- Matt . vi. 11. ūş-a-ble, *use-a-ble, a. [Eng. us(e); -able.] Able to be used; fit to be used. "If it be neither useable nor beneficial, it will soon have ending."- Time's Storehouse , p. 766. ūş-age (age as ig), s. [Fr.] 1. The mode or manner of using or treating: treat ment; an act or series of actions performed by one person toward another. "This most cruel usage of your queen." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, ii. 3. 2. Custom; practice or use long continued; customary way of acting. "Stokesley of London. was very earnest with him for the usages of the church."- Strype : Eccles . Mem . (an. 1538). 3. Established or customary mode of employing Some particular word; current use or locution. "A certain community, at a certain time, used such and such a sign thus and so; and hence, by this and that succe ion of partly traceable historical changes, our own usage has come to be what it is."-Whitney: Life and Growth of Language , ch. viii. *4. Manners, behavior. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, usager Usage is what one has been long used to do; custom is what one generally does; prescription is what one is prescribed to do. The usage acquires force and sanction by dint of time; the custom acquires sanction by the frequency of its being done or the numbers doing it; the prescription acquires force by the authority which prescribes it. Customs vary in every age, usage and prescription supply the place of written law. *üş-ag-er (ag as Ig), s. [Fr.] IMG:content-0344.png:[blocks in formation]