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to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

Customary. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [Obs.]

Usually. [Obs.] Milton.

In a customary manner; habitually.

Quality of being customary.

Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment. Shak. A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South.

One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.] The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt.

The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.

use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.

According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.

Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] Boyle.

Customarily. [Obs.]

Usual; customary. [Archaic] Featley.

Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed action." Shak.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.

Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to. Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18.

Not customable, or subject to custom duties.