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eing so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use. Books can never teach the use of books. Bacon. This Davy serves you for good uses. Shak. When he framed All things to man's delightful use. Milton.

Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts. To what can I useful…

In a useful manner.

The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison.

Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. Milton.

One who uses. Shak.

Concealed or hidden out of the way. [Obs.] The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. Milton.

In an abstruse manner.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. Boyle.

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

Full of abuse; abusive. [R.] "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.

One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

A midwife. [Recent] Dunglison.

to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; - - with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

Charged with offense; as, an accused person.

Accusation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

To pour out or upon. [R.] I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.

A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. Macaulay.

A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.