Useful (a.) 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.
Usefully (adv.) In a useful manner.
Usefulness (n.) The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage.
Useless (a.) 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.
User (n.) One who uses.
User (n.) Enjoyment of property; use.
Usher (n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
Usher (n.) An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
Ushered (imp. & p. p.) of Usher
Ushering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Usher
Usher (v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.
Usherance (n.) The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in.
Usherdom (n.) The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
Usherless (a.) Destitute of an usher.
Ushership (n.) The office of an usher; usherdom.
Usitative (a.) Denoting usual or customary action.
Usnea (n.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests.
Usnic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens (Usnea, Parmelia, etc.).
Usquebaugh (a.) A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky.
Usquebaugh (a.) A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices.
Usself (n. pl.) Ourselves.
Ustion (n.) The act of burning, or the state of being burned.
Ustorious (a.) Having the quality of burning.
Ustulate (a.) Blackened as if burned.
Ustulation (n.) The act of burning or searing.
Ustulation (n.) The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.
Ustulation (n.) The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing.
Ustulation (n.) The burning of wine.
Ustulation (n.) Lascivious passion; concupiscence.
Usual (n.) Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.
Usucaption (n.) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.
Usufruct (n.) The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance.
Usufructuary (n.) A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it.
Usufructuary (a.) Of or pertaining to a usufruct; having the nature of a usufruct.
Usurarious (a.) Alt. of Usurary
Usurary (a.) Usurious.
Usured (imp. & p. p.) of Usure
Usuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Usure
Usure (v. i.) To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest.
Usure (n.) Usury.
Usurer (n.) One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.
Usurer (n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.
Usurious (a.) Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
Usurious (a.) Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract.
Usurped (imp. & p. p.) of Usurp
Usurping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Usurp
Usurp (v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.
Usurp (v. i.) To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.
Usurpant (a.) Usurping; encroaching.
Usurpation (n.) The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.
Usurpation (n.) Use; usage; custom.
Usurpatory (a.) Marked by usurpation; usurping.
Usurpature (n.) Usurpation.
Usurper (n.) One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.
Usurpingly (adv.) In a usurping manner.
Usury (v. t.) A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
Usury (v. t.) The practice of taking interest.
Usury (v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
Ut (n.) The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.
Utas (n.) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael.
Utas (n.) Hence, festivity; merriment.
Utensil (v. t.) That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.
Uterine (a.) Of or instrument to the uterus, or womb.
Uterine (a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father.
Uterogestation (n.) Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy.
Uterovaginal (n.) Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.
Uterus (n.) The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.
Uterus (n.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.
Utes (n. pl.) 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.
Utia (n.) 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.
Utica (a.) 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.
Utile (v. t.) Profitable; useful.
Utilitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; /iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.
Utilitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the Utilitarian Society.
Utilitarian (n.) One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.
Utilitarianism (n.) The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.
Utilitarianism (n.) The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe.
Utilitarianism (n.) The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.
Utility (n.) The quality or state of being 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.
Utility (n.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.
Utility (n.) Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.
Utilizable (a.) Capable of being utilized; as, the utilizable products of the gas works.
Utilization (n.) The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.
Utilized (imp. & p. p.) of Utilize
Utilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Utilize
Utilize (v. t.) 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.
Uti possidetis () The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war.
Uti possidetis () A species of interdict granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor.
Utis (n.) See Utas.
Utlary (n.) Outlawry.
Utmost (a.) Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge.
Utmost (a.) Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or the like; greatest; as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness.
Utmost (n.) The most that can be; the farthest limit; the greatest power, degree, or effort; as, he has done his utmost; try your utmost.
Utopia (n.) An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Utopia (n.) Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.
Utopian (a.) Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.
Utopian (n.) An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist.
Utopianism (n.) The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.
Utopianist (n.) An Utopian; an optimist.
Utopical (a.) Utopian; ideal.