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only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.

To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.

A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.

; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united. The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest. Dickens.

n credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]

Not subjected to Roman arms or customs. J. Whitaker.

Not accustomed and not likely; not disposed. I am a soldier and unapt to weep. Shak. -- Un*apt"ly, adv. -- Un*apt"ness, n.

To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal. Carlyle.

ntie. It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.

Not habituated; unaccustomed. Unused to bend, impatient of control. Thomson.

Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed. [Archaic] Sir W. Scott.

Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton.

To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice. [Obs.] The French soldiers . . . from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms. Sir T. More.

Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method. Chaucer. It has now been, during many years, the grave and decorous usage of Parliaments to hear, in respectful silence, all expressions, acceptable or unacceptable, which are uttered from the throne. Macaulay.

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

Using; accustomed. [Obs.] "Usant for to steal." Chaucer.

Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit. Let later age that noble use envy. Spenser. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak.

Denoting usual or customary action. "The usitative aorist." Alford.