USANCE

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Use; usage; employment. [Obs.] Spenser.

2.
n.

Custom; practice; usage. [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

3.
n.

Interest paid for money; usury. [Obs.] Shak.

4.
n.

The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance.

← USAGER U — all words USANT →
Browse all “U” words Find “USANCE” in other definitions

98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.