Usance, yu' -zans, s

use; proper employment; usury; interest paid for money; a determinate time fixed for payment of a bill of exchange [Comm.] (Fr. ) Use, yuse, s. purpose; employment; application of anything to a purpose, good or bad: utility; occasion to employ; continued practice; premium paid for borrowed money; the benefit or profit of lands and tenements [Law. ] In use, in employment; in customary practice or observance (L. utor, us us, touse). Use, yuze, v.a. to make use of or employ; to waste or ] exhaust by employment; to accustom; to habituate; to to med to;to treat;to practise practise systematically customarily;: v.n. to be to be wont; accusto frequent; to inhabit.