2. To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; —
sometimes followed by of. [Obs.] "Where never foot did use." Spenser.
He useth every day to a merchant's house.
B. Jonson.
Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton
winds, and gushing brooks.
Milton.
Use"ful (?), 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.
To what can I useful!
Milton.
Use"ful*ly, adv. In a useful manner.
Use"ful*ness, n. The quality or state of being useful; utility;
serviceableness; advantage. Addison.
Syn. — Utility; value; profit. See Utility.
Use"less, 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.
Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous.
Milton.
Syn. — Fruitless; ineffectual. — Useless, Fruitless, Ineffectual. We
speak of an attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are in
it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of success, as fruitless
when it fails, not from any such difficulties, but from some unexpected
hindrance arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered
fruitless by the death of its projector. Ineffectual nearly resembles
fruitless, but implies a failure of a less hopeless character; as,
after several ineffectual efforts, I at last succeeded.
Useless are all words Till you have writ "performance" with your
swords. The other is for waiving.
Beau. & Fl.
Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy,
as being either needless or fruitless.
Waterland.
Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was
ineffectual to many.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
— Use"less*ly, adv. — Use"less*ness, n.
Us"er (?), n. 1. One who uses. Shak.