Emily Dickinson Lexicon

USE, v.t. [s as z. Fr. user; It. usare; Sp. usar; L. utor, usus; Gr. εθω.]

1. To employ; to handle, hold, occupy or move for some purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use a book; to use time. Most men use the right hand with more convenience than the left, and hence its name, right.
2. To waste, consume or exhaust by employment; as, to use flour for food; to use beer for drink; to use water for irrigation, or for turning the wheel of a mill.
3. To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger. Addison. Swift.
4. To treat; as, to use one well or ill; to use people with kindness and civility; to use a beast with cruelty. Cato has us'd me ill. Addison.
5. To practice customarily. Use hospitality one to another. 1 Pet. iv. To use one's self, to behave. [Obs.] Shak.