user2 (uzer)

[OF. user, inf. as noun: see use, v.] In law, the using or exercise, as of a right; continued use or enjoyment; the acting 6675 hui ier = OSp. uxier , Sp. ujier = Sp. Pg. It. ostiario = It. usciere, also ostiario, L. osti- arius , a doorkeeper, ostium (> OF. uis , huis ), a door, entrance, os ( or is ), a mouth: see ostium , 082.] 1. An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; a doorkeeper; hence, one who meets peo- ple at the door of a public hall, church, or the a- ter, and escorts them to seats; also, an officer whose busine it is to introduce strangers or to walk before a person of rank. In the royal household of Great Britain there are four gentlemen ush- ers of the privy chamber, together with gentlemen ushers daily waiters, gentlemen ushers quarterly waiters, etc. That dore can noon u her shette. Gower , Conf. Amant., i. The sable Night dis-lodged; and now began Aurora's Vsher with his windy Fan Gently to shake the Woods on every side. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Fathers. P. jun . Art thou her grace's steward? Bro. No, her usher , sir. P. jun . What, of the hall? thou hast a sweeping face; Thy beard is like a broom. B. Jonson, Staple of News, ii. 2. An under-teacher, or a istant to a schoolmaster or principal teacher. Further yt was agred that, yf Ryc' Marlow which ys now Scholemaster will not tary here as hu her and teache wrytinge and helpe to teache the petytes, then the sayd Ocland to have the hole wages, and to fynd his hu her him selfe and to teache gramer, wrytinge, and petytes according to the erection of our sayd Schole. Christopher Ocland , in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 65. I have been an usher at a boarding-school myself; and may I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in New gate! Goldsmith, Vicar, xx. 3. One of certain British geometrid moths. Hybernia leu cop hear i a is the spring usher.Gentleman usher of the black rod. See black -rod. - Gentleman ushers of the privy chamber. See privy. Usher of the green rod, an officer of the order of the Thistle, who attends on the sovereign and knights a embled in chapter. There are also ushers doing similar duties in the order of St. Patrick, the order of the Bath, etc.