use vb. (obsolete or archaic uses)
1.
to be in the
habit of doing (a thing), make a practice of
Mer.V. I. iii. 71
“I do never use
it,”
Cor. III. i. 113
“as 'twas us'd,”
Lr. I. iv. 188; with
infin.
Troil. II. i. 52
“If thou use to beat
me.”
2.
to be accustomed
(with inf.)
Tp. II. i. 182
“they always use to
laugh at nothing,”
Ant. II. v. 32
“we use To say the dead
are well.”
3.
refl. to behave
oneself
H8 III. i. 175
“If I have us'd myself
unmannerly.”
4.
to put out at
interest Sonn. iv. 7*
“Profilless usurer, why dost
thou use So great a sum of sums, yet canst not
live?.”
5.
“use of,” deal with
Tit. V. i. 39
“To use as you think
needful of the man.”
6.
to be familiar with
Mac. III. ii. 10; cf.
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