Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for U-SU'RI-OUS
U-SU'RI-OUS, a. [s as z.]
- Practicing usury; taking exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
- Partaking of usury; containing usury; as, a usurious contract, which by statute is void.
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