Word Meanings - UNUSAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.
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- USAGE
1. The act of using; mode 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. - USAGER
One who has the use of anything in trust for another. Daniel. - HOUSAGE
A fee for keeping goods in a house. Chambers. - DISUSAGE
Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. Hooker. - SPOUSAGE
Espousal. Bale. - ESPOUSAGE
Espousal. Latimer. - MISUSAGE
Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser. - SAUSAGE
1. An article of food consisting of meat minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm. - UNUSAGE
Want or lack of usage. Chaucer. - SUPERPLUSAGE
Surplusage. "There yet remained a superplusage." Bp. Fell. - ABUSAGE
Abuse. Whately . - SURPLUSAGE
Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected. (more info) 1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser.