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de of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak.

One who has the use of anything in trust for another. [Obs.] Daniel.

Abuse. [Obs.] Whately (1634).

Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. [R.] Hooker.

Espousal. [Obs.] Latimer.

A fee for keeping goods in a house. [R.] Chambers.

Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.

An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.

Espousal. [Obs.] Bale.

Surplusage. [Obs.] "There yet remained a superplusage." Bp. Fell.

Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser. A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. Emerson.

Want or lack of usage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.

eiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [A French usage] Abbott.

A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

tely of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.

Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.

Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke…

Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. "Aristotelic usage." Sir W. Hamilton.