Ursinæ (ersine)

pl. [NL., II. n. A bear; any member of the family Ur sidæ. IMG:content-1642.jpg:[merged small][merged small][graphic] American Black Bear (Ursus american us). U. american us ; for the polar bear, spectacled bear, sunbear, and honey-bear (or sloth-bear) have been detached under the names of Thala arctos , Tremarctos , Helarctos , and Melursus (or Proc hilus ) respectively. See bear2 (with cuts), and cuts under scapholunar and Plant i grad a . Urtica (er'ti-kä), n. [NL. (Malpighi, 1675; Brunfels, 1530), urtica , a nettle, so called from the stinging hairs, urere , burn: see us tion.] A genus of apetalous plants, the nettles, type of the order Urticaceæ and tribe Urticeæ. characterized by opposite leaves furnished with sting ing hairs and free or united stipules; by the fruit, a straight achene; and by its unisexual flowers, the pistillate with four unequal segments. There are about 30 species, widely scattered over most temperate and subtemperate regions. They are annuals or perennials, in a few species woody at base. They bear petioled toothed or lobed leaves, usually with from five to seven nerves. The small and inconspicuous greenish twin flowers are borne in small clusters or panicles. For the species in general, see nettle1; for U. ferox, see onga - onga. Nearly 400 former species are now cla ed elsewhere, especially under Laportea, Urera, Pilea, and Bæhmeria. England has 3 species, 2 of which, U. dioica and U. urens, occur occasionally in the United States; 6 others are natives of the United States, 5 in the west and southwest, and 1, U. gracilis, a tall wand-like nettle of fence-rows and springy places, ranging eastward and northward from Colorado to the Atlantic. Urticaceæ (ér-ti-kā'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Dumor urson (er's on), n . [ ourson , a bear's cub, ours , bear, L. ursus , a bear: see ursine .] The Canada porcupine, or tree-porcupine of eastern North America, sometimes called bear -porcu-tier, 1829), Urtica + -aceæ .] An order of pine, as by Harlan. The name was given or applied by Buffon. See Erethizon and caw quaw, and second cut under porcupine. ursula (er'sū-lä), n. [ Ursula ( Limen it is astyanax ) , about two thirds natural size. blotches, and hence is called red - spotted purple . Its larva feeds on many plants, as willow, oak, blackberry, cherry, and species of Vaccinium . Ursuline (er'sū-lin), a. and n. [ II. n. One of an order or company of Roman Catholic women founded by St. Angela Merici at Brescia in 1537, for the nursing of the sick and the teaching of young girls. The Ursulines took their name from St. Ursula, whose protection they invoked. At first they neither took regular vows nor adopted conventual rules, but in 1612 they were divided into the congregated Ursulines , who still adhere to the original organization, and the religious Ursulines , who take solemn vows, observe inclosure, and follow the rule of St. Augustine. The order was introduced into Canada in 1639, and into the present territory of the United States in 1727. Ursus (ėr's us), n. [NL., ursus = Gr. άρκτος = Ir. art = Skt. riksha , a bear.] A genus of plantigrade carnivorous mammals, the bears, of the family Ursidæ . It was formerly coextensive with the family, and was even applied to some animals not apetalous plants, of the series Unisexuales, unlike all the other orders of the series, except the Euphorbiaceæ, in the frequently herbaceous habit and in the presence of a distinct free perianth. It bears cymose staminate flowers, the perianth free from the accompanying bract, with one stamen opposite each lobe, or rarely fewer. The one celled ovary contains a single ovule, the style at first terminal, but usually soon left at one side by the oblique growth of the indehiscent fruit, which is commonly a small achene or drupe, or by consolidation a syncarp. The order includes about 1,500 species, belonging to 110 genera, widely dispersed through warm and temperate regions, and cla ed in 8 tribes, of which the types are Ulmus, Celtis, Cannabis, Morus, Artocarpus, Conocephalus, Urtica, and Thelygonum. A great diversity in habit, fruit, and milky juice occasioned a former dismemberment of the order into the separate orders Ulmaceæ, Celtideæ, Moreæ, Artocarpeæ, Urticaceæ, and Canna bine a, respectively the elm, hackberry, mulberry, breadfruit, nettle, and hemp families, each coinciding nearly with the similar tribe now recognized. Among these tribes the Urticeæ and about 6 other genera are principally herbaceous; the others are trees or shrubs, sometimes, as in species of Ficus and Ulmus, reaching a great size. Their leaves are usually alternate, in outline entire, toothed, lobed, or palmately parted, and with deciduous stipules which often inclose the terminal bud. The inflorescence is primarily centripetal, but ultimately centrifugal, often in few-flowered clusters, sometimes forming a dense spike, raceme, or panicle, or with all the flowers closely ma ed on a fleshy receptacle. The order yields a number of edible fruits - as the fig, breadfruit, jackfruit, mulberry, and hackberry-in which the edible part may be either the ripened ovary, as the hackberry, or a fleshy calyx, as the mulberry, or the fleshy receptacle, as the fig, forming a syconium, or the thickened seed, as in species of Artocarpus. The order also includes several important dyewoods, as fustic; several ornamental as well as timber trees planted for shade or for hedges, as the elm, mulberry, and Osage orange; and many valuable fibers, as hemp and ramie. Species of some genera produce a nar resin, as hops and also hemp. (See hashish.) Several of the most notable trees belong here, as the banian, the bo-tree or sacred fig, the sycamore-fig, and the famed up as tree of Java. (See Ficus and Antiar is.) In the tribes Moreæ and Artocarpeæ, and especially in the genus Ficus, an acrid emetic or poisonous milky juice abounds, either white or yellowish, in many furnishing india-rubber, in others becoming resinous, and yielding a gum. In a few, the cow-trees, it is innocuous, and is used as a beverage. See also Pseudolmedia, Bro us so net i a, Streblus, Zelkova, Planer a, and Humulus. urticaceous (ėr-ti-kā'shius), a. In bot., of or pertaining to the Urticaceæ. urtical (er'ti-kal), a. [ IMG:content-1643.jpg:[graphic] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary urtical The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary buzzard of the United States, but differs in the mode of feathering of the neck, proportions of wings and tail, shape bill, etc. It inhabits the warmer parts of Amer- ica, from latitude 40° S. to nearly 40° N., and is common in the southern United States as far north as the Carol in as. It is very voracious, and acts as an efficient scavenger in the towns, where it becomes semi-domesticated. See also cut under Cathartes . urucuri (ö-rö-köʻri), n. A Brazilian palm, At- talea excels a . Its large oily nuts are burned for their smoke in curing Para india-rubber. Urucuri - iba is the name of Cocos coronata . Uruguay an (ö'rö-gwa-an), a . and n. [ Uru- guay (see def.) + -an.] I. a. Pertaining to Uruguay, a republic of South America, situ- ated south of Brazil. II. n . An inhabitant of Uruguay. urus (ū'rus), n. [NL., οὗρος , wild ox, from the Teut. name represented by OHG. ür = AS. ûr = Icel. urr , also in comp. OHG. urohso, etc.: see ures and aurochs .] 1. A kind of wild bull described by Cæsar; the mountain-bull, which ran wild in Gaul at the period of the Roman invasion, but has long been extinct. This is the Bos urus , or B. primi genius , of nat- uralists, and is also called reem , tur , ur, ure , and ure-ox. The urus had long spreading horns, unlike the European bison ( Bison bonasus ) or aurochs, and more like ordinary cattle, of which B. primi genius is a presumed ancestral form; but by some misunderstanding the name urus has also attached to the aurochs, a few individuals of which still linger wild, but under protection, in the forests of Lithuania. It has been thought, erroneously, that the "Chilling ham cattle," such as exist in confinement at Chil- lingham in North umber land, England, and Hamilton in Lan arks hire, Scotland, are descendants of the animal de- scribed by Cæsar. See cut under aurochs . 2. [ cap .] A genus of Bovidæ , including the aurochs and extinct bisons: therefore equiva- lent to Bison as now employed. Bojanus , 1827; Owen , 1843.-3. A kind of fo il ox from Esch- scholtz Bay, Alaska. Buck land , 1831. urva (er'vä), n. [NL. urva , from an E. Ind. name.] 1. The crab-eating ichneumon of In- dia, Herpestes urva , of a black color, the hairs annulated with white, and with a white stripe on the side of the head.-2. [ cap .] A generic name of such ichneumons, of which there are 3 Asiatic species, as U. cancrivora . B. R. Hodgson . urvant (er'vant), a. [Appar, an error for cur- vant .] In her ., same as urved . urved (érvd), a . [Appar. an error for curved .] In her ., turned or bowed upward. Berry . Urticeæ (ér-tis'ē-ē), n . pl . [NL. (A. P. de Can- dolle, 1805), Urtica + -eæ .] A tribe of plants, of the order Urticaceæ , typified by the genus Urtica, the nettles. It is characterized by usually unisexual flowers with one to five anthers reversed in the bud, inflexed filaments, an erect orthotropous ovule, and a straight embryo. It includes about 40 genera, cla ed in 5 subtribes, of which Urera , Procris, Bæhmeria , Parie- taria , and Forskohlea are the types. For other genera, see Helzine , Pilea , and Laportea . They are mostly her- baceous plants, numerous both in the tropics and in tem- perate regions, occasionally, as in Urera and Laportea , becoming trees. They are remarkable, in the typical sub us1 (us), pron . The objective case of we . tribe, the Urereæ , for their stinging hairs, and more or us2t, n. An old spelling of usel . He is able with his tongue and usage to deceive and Harman , Caveat for Cursetors, p. 51. They helde hem payed of fruites that they ete, Which that the feldes gave hem by usage . As was her usaunce To forthren every wight, and doon plesaunce Of veray bounte and of courtesye. urubitinga (örö-bi-ting'ga), n . [Braz., urubu , of America, and (b) of United States Army . a vulture, + Tupi ting a , white, bright, beaut i us able (ū'za-bl), a. [Also useable ; use + A lame carriage-horse threw everything into sad uncer- tainty. It might be weeks, it might be only a few days, before the horse was useable . Jane Austen, Emma, xlii. The character of usablene (ū'za-bl-nes), n . being usable. Also spelled useablene . usage (ūzāj), n. [ usage , usage = Pr. usatge = Sp. usaje = It. usaggio , usaticum , usage, us us , use: see use .] urubu (örö-bö), n . [Braz.] One of the Amer- ican vultures; a bird of the genus Cathartes 1t. Use; enjoyment. or Catharista. The name is commonly applied, in ornithology, to the black vulture, or zopilote, the iribu of Azara, Catharista urubu of Vieillot, Vultur iota or Ca- thartes iota of some writers, now usually known as Ca- tharista atrata. This resembles the common turkey- Urubu ( Catharista atrata). Nor be thou rageful, like a handled bee, And lose thy life by usage of thy sting. He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance. usantt (ū'zant), a. [ usant , ppr. of user , use: see use .] Using; accustomed. A theef he was of corn and eek of mele, And that a sly and usaunt [var. usyng ] for to stele. Chaucer , Reeve's Tale, 1. 20. usauncet, usauntt. Old spellings of usance, usant. IMG:content-1646.jpg:[graphic] 3. Mode of using or treating; treatment. Deliver what you are, and how you came To this sad cave, and what your usage was? As I prom is'd On your arrival, you have met no usage Deserves repentance in your being here. Base was his usage , vile his whole employ, And all despised and fed the pliant boy. Crabbe, The Parish Register (Works, I. 64). 4. Long-continued use or practice; customary way of acting; habitual use; custom; practice: as, the ancient usage of Parliament. Technically, in English law, usage has a different signification from custom, in not implying immemorial existence or general prevalence. In earlier times custom was defined as a law created or evidenced by immemorial usage. Some Amer- ican writers use the terms as practically equivalent, ex- cept in regarding usage as the facts by which the existence of custom is proved; others treat usage as the habit of in- dividuals or cla es, such as those engaged in a particular trade or busine , and custom as the habit of communities or localities. Afterward, as is the right vsage, The lordys all to hir dede homage. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 251. Prior , Henry and Emma. IMG:content-1647.jpg:[blocks in formation] use If this citizen had not... proffered her her diet and lodging under the name of my sister, I could not have told what shift to have made, for the greatest part of my money is revolted; we'll make more use of him. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, ii. 2. Constant Use ev'n Flint and Steel impairs. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 2. That property of a thing (or character of a person) which renders it suitable for a purpose; adaptability to the attainment of an end; usefulne ; availability; utility; serviceablene ; service; convenience; help; profit: as, a thing of no use. God made two great lights, great for their use To man. Milton , P. L., vii. 346. We have no doubt that the ancient controversies were of use , in so far as they served to exercise the faculties of the disputants. Macaulay , Lord Bacon. It [a sitting] might as well last to Sunday morning, as there is no use in making more than two bites at a cherry. Punch , No. 2066, p. 64. 3. Need for employing; occasion to employ; nece ity; exigency; need. Be not acknown on 't [handkerchief]; I have use for it. Shak ., Othello, iii. 3. 319. Heaven has begun the work, And blest us all; let our endeavours follow, To preserve this ble ing to our timely uses . Fletcher, Wife for a Month, v. 1. 4. Continued or repeated practice or employment; custom; wont; usage; habit. Long use and experience hath found out many things commodious for man's life. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. How use doth breed a habit in a man! Shak., T. G. of V., v. 4. 1. Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty-familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. Emerson , Courage. 5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. [Rare.] O Cæsar! these things are beyond all use, And I do fear them. Shak ., J. C., ii. 2. 25. 6. Interest for money; usury. [Obsolete or archaic.] D. Pedro. You have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. Beat. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one. Shak., Much Ado, ii. 1. 288. Human life Is but a loan to be repaid with use, When He shall call his debtors to account. Cowper , Task, iii. 7t. That part of a sermon devoted to a practi- cal application of the doctrine expounded. The parson has an edifying stomach, He hath begun three draughts of sack in doctrines, And four in uses . B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, iii. 1. 8. In liturgics, the distinctive ritual and liturgical forms and observances, collectively and singly, of a particular church, diocese, group of dioceses, or community: as, Sarum use; Aberdeen use; Anglican use; Roman use. The term is most frequently applied to the varieties of ritual and liturgical usage in England before the Reformation and to monastic and Roman usage as differing from these, and also to the different local varieties of the ancient Gallican offices. In England the several uses were those of Sarum, York, Here ford, Bangor, Lincoln, etc. These had a common family likene , and differed considerably from Roman use. The most important of them was Sarum or Salisbury use, which was the form of service compiled about 1085 from various diocesan uses, English and Norman, by St. Osmund, bishop of Salisbury and chancellor of England. The use of Sarum prevailed throughout the greater part of England, and in 1542 it was ordered to be observed throughout the whole province of Canterbury. The Book of Common Prayer, first i ued in 1549, and founded mainly on Salisbury use, established a uniform liturgy for the whole Church of England, but, except by implication of certain rubrics, left the exact mode of ritual observance in many respects unprovided for. See liturgy, 3 (4). - Sarum use. See def. 8.- To have no use for. (a) To have no occasion or need for; be unable to convert to a profitable end; not to want. (b) To have no liking for. [U. S.] "I have no use for him"-don't like him. Trans. Amer . Philol . A ., XVII. 46. To have no use oft. Same as to have no use for (a). Our author calls them "figures to be let," because the picture has no use of them. Dryden, Parallel between Poetry and Painting. To make use of, to put in use; employ. - Use and wont, use and custom, the common or customary practice. usel (uz), v.; pret. and pp. used, ppr. using. [ Alwaies in your hands vse eyther Corall or yellow Amber, or a Chalcedonium, or a sweet Pommander, or some like precious stone, to be worne in a ring vpon the little finger of the left hand. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 257. 6674 Lance lot Gobbo, use your legs. Shak., M. of V., ii. 2. 5. We need not use long circumstance of words. Beau . and Fl . , Laws of Candy, i. 2. I am not at my own dispose; I am using his talents, and all the gain must be his. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, i. 2. Since the winds were pleased this waif to blow Unto my door, a fool I were indeed If I should fail to use her for my need. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 266. (6) To employ; expend; consume: as, to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation. Instant occasion to use fifty talents. Shak., T. of A., iii. 1. 19. use Also there, faste by, be.ij. stones; vpon one of them our Sauyoure Criste vsed to sytte and preche to his disciples. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 19. Sir, if you come to rail, pray quit my house; I do not use to have such language given Within my doors to me. Beau , and Fl . , Coxcomb, iv. 2. As thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Ps. cxix. 132. So when they came to the door they went in, not knock- ing; for folks use not to knock at the door of an inn. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , ii. 2. To be wont; be customary; customarily be, etc. He setteth out the cruelne of the emperor's soldiers, which they used at Rome. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc.), p. 188. They Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance. Shak., Tempest, fii. 3. 16. We have us'd all means To find the cause of her disease, yet cannot. Beau. and Fl ., Custom of the Country, v. 4. Deeds and language such as men do use . B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Prol. In prosperity he gratefully admires the bounty of the Almighty giver, and useth , not abuseth plenty. Habington , Castara, iii. He was questioned about some speeches he had used in the ship lately, in his return out of England. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 324. (d) To practise customarily; make a practice of. To dampne a man without answere of word; And, for a lord, that is ful foul to use. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 402. O what falsehood is used in England - yea, in the whole world! Latimer, Misc. Selections. As for Drunkenne , 'tis True, it may be us'd without Scandal. Etherege, She Would if She Could, i. 1. Pro dig all in their expence, vsing dicing, dauncing, dronkennes. Lyly , Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 147. 1 Pet. iv. 9. Use hospitality one to another. Of Court, it seemes, men Courtesie doe call, For that it there most useth to abound. Spenser, F. Q., VL. i. 1. Madam, your beauty uses to command, And not to beg! what is your suit to me? Beau , and Fl . , King and No King, iii. 1. How alter'd is each pleasant nook; - And used the dumpy church to look So dumpy in the spire? Locker, Bramble-rise. 3. To be accustomed to go; linger or stay habitually; dwell. [Obsolete or provincial.] This fellow useth to the fencing-school, this to the dancing school. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, p. 154. I will give thee for thy food No fish that useth in the mud. Fletcher, Faithful Shepherde , iii. 1. Ders er ole gray rat wat uses 'bout yer, en time atter time he comes out w'en you all done gond ter bed, en me en him talks by de 'our. J. C. Harris , Uncle Remus, xiv. 4t. To communicate; receive the eucharist. And the to torches, eueri day in the zer, scullen ben light and brennynge at the he ye me e at selue auter, from the lenacioun of cristis body sacrid, in til that the priest haue vsud. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 27. When the preste hath don his ma e, Vsed, & his hondes wasche, A-nothur oryson he moste say. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 91. one well or ill. In government it is good to use men of one rank equally. Bacon, Followers and Friends (ed. 1887). Oh, brave lady, thou art worthy to have servants, To be comm an dre of a family, Thou knowest how to use and govern it! Beau, and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, iii. 3. When Pompey liv'd, He us'd you nobly; now he is dead, use him so. Fletcher ( and another ), False One, ii. 1. 'Sdeath! what a brute am I to use her thus! Sheridan, The Rivals, iii. 2. 3. To accustom; habituate; render familiar by practice; inure: common in the past participle: as, soldiers used to hardships. About eighteene yeers agone, hauing pupils at Cambridge studious of the Latine tongue, I used them often to write Epistles and The ames together, and dailie to translate some peece of English into Latine. Baret, Alvearie (1580), To the Reader. It will next behoove us to consider the inconvenience we fall into by using our selves to bee guided by these kind of Testimonies. Milton , Prelatical Episcoрасу. If it be one of the baser consolations, it is also one of the most disheartening concomitants of long life, that we get used to everything. Lowell, Words worth. 4. To frequent; visit often or habitually. And zif the Merchauntes useden als moc he that Contre as the i don Cathay, it wolde ben better than Cathay in a schort while. Mandeville, Travels, p. 307. It goes against my conscience to tarry so long in honest company; but my comfort is, I do not use it. Shirley, Grateful Servant, ii. 1. These many years, even from my youth, have I used the seas; in which time the Lord God hath delivered me from a multitude of dangers. R. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 351). "I was better off once, sir," he did not fail to tell everybody who used the room. Thackeray. 5t. To comport; behave; demean: used reflexively. Now will I declare how the citizens use themselves one to another. Sir T. More, Utopia, tr. by Robinson, ii. 5. 6t. To have sexual intercourse with. Chaucer. - To use up. (a) To consume entirely by using; use the whole of. There is only a certain amount of energy in the present constitution of the sun; and, when that has been used up, the sun cannot go on giving out any more heat. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 222. (b) To exhaust, as one's means or strength; wear out; leave no force or capacity in: as, the man is completely used up. [Colloq.] Before we saw the Spanish Main, half were "gastados," used up , as the Dons say, with the scurvy. Kingsley, Westward Ho, i. But what is coffee but a noxious berry, Born to keep used - up London ers awake? C. S. Calverley, Beer. II. in trans. 1. To be accustomed; practise customarily; be in the habit: as, he used to go there regularly. oes, uoes, eus, os, oeps, obs = Pr. obs = OSp. hue vos = It. uopo, profit, advantage, use, need, And use is a trust or confidence reposed in some other. Sir E. Coke, Com. on Little ton, 272 b. Use seems to be an older word than trust. Its first occurrence in statute law is in 7 Ric. II. c. 12, in the form œps . In Little ton "confidence" is the word employed. The Statute of Uses seems to regard use , trust, and confidence as synonymous. According to Bacon, it was its permanency that distinguished the use from the trust. Encyc . Brit ., XXIII. 596. Charitable uses, Charitable Uses Act. See charitable . - Covenant to stand seized to uses. See covenant. Domain of use. See domain . - Executed use. See erecuted.- Executory uses, springing uses. Feoffee to uses. See feoffee . - Ferial use, Festal use. See ferial . - Future or contingent use, a use limited to a person not ascertained, or depending on an uncertain event, but without derogation of a use previously limited. - In use. (a) In employment. (b) In customary practice or observ ance. When abjurations were in use in this land, the state and law were satisfied if the abjuror came to the sea-side, and waded into the sea when winds and tides resisted. Donne, Letters, vii. Pious uses, religious uses; more specifically, that cla of religious uses which was not condemned by the law as superstitions. - Public use. See public. - Religious uses, uses or trusts for the propagation of religion, the support of religious institutions, or the performance of religious rites. Resulting use. See result, v. i. - Secondary use. Same as shifting use. Shifting use, a use or trust properly created for the benefit of one person, but so as to pa from him upon a specified contingency and vest wholly or in part in another. Thus, if A enfeoffed B to the use of C and his heirs, but if C should die or should inherit another estate in the lifetime of A, then to D and his heirs, the occurrence of the contingency would cause the use (and therefore, under the Statute of Uses, the legal title) to shift from C to D.- Springing use, the creation of an estate so as to arise (spring into effect) on a future event, after an estate enjoyed by the grantor, by means of a feoffment or conveyance under the Statute of Uses. -Statute of charitable uses. See statute. - Statute of Uses, an English statute of 1536 (27 Hen. VIII., c. 10) against uses and against devising lands by will (a practice which tended to defeat feudal dues), and intended to give the legal estate or absolute ownership to those who are entitled to the beneficial enjoyment of land. The principal clause enacted that thereafter whoever should have use a use, confidence, or trust in any hereditaments should be deemed and adjudged in lawful seizin, estate, and pos se ion of the same estate that he had in use that is, that he, instead of the nominal grantee or trustee, should become the full legal owner. This principle has been adopt ed by provisions, known by the same title, in the legislation of most of the United States. - Superstitious uses, such religious uses as were condemned by English at or after the Reformation as maintaining superstition, in which were included the providing of ma es for the dead, etc. In the United States, generally, no restriction is placed upon uses for these purposes as such, all religious tenets not involving any contravention of the criminal law being on an equal footing; but trusts for such purposes are required to conform to the same rules as trusts for charitable or other secular uses, in respect to the existence of a competent corporate trustee and a defined or ascertainable object. - Use and occupation, the enjoyment of po e ion or the holding of real property belonging to another without a written lease, but under circumstances implying a liability to make compensation in the nature of rent.- Use plaintiff, a person beneficially interested in a claim, and for whose use or benefit an action is brought thereon in the name of another, as in the name of an apparent owner, or in the name of the state. useable, useablene . See usable, usablene . usee (ū-zē'), п. [