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The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.

The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael. Cowell. The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St. Hilary next ensuing she was crowned. Holinshed.

ent or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business. Wagons fraught with utensils of war. Milton.

Of or instrument to the uterus, or womb.

Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy. Pritchard.

Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.

The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.

An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.

The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war. Brande & C.

Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genus Capromys, or Utia. In general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.

Profitable; useful. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.

piness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. Bentham.

eing useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines. The utility of the enterprises was, however, so great and obvious that all opposition proved useless. Macaulay.

Capable of being utilized; as, the utilizable products of the gas works.

The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities. In former ages, the mile-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons. Hawthorne.

See Utas. [Obs.]

Outlawry. [Obs.] Camden.