use (n.)
- ablation
- abuse
- account
- adaptability
- advantage
- appliance
- applicability
- application
- appropriateness
- automatism
- avail
- availability
- behalf
- benefit
- bleed
- ceremony
- characteristic
- claim
- common
- conduct
- conformity
- consuetude
- control
- convenience
- convention
- custom
- demand
- do
- drain
- duty
- easement
- effectiveness
- efficacy
- efficiency
- employ
- employment
- equity
- erosion
- estate
- etiquette
- exercise
- exercising
- exertion
- exploit
- fashion
- fitness
- formality
- function
- functionality
- goal
- habit
- habitude
- handle
- helpfulness
- holding
- interest
- limitation
- manner
- manners
- mark
- milk
- misuse
- mores
- object
- objective
- observance
- occasion
- office
- operability
- operation
- parley
- part
- pattern
- peculiarity
- percentage
- play
- ply
- point
- practicability
- practicality
- practice
- praxis
- prescription
- profit
- profitability
- purpose
- relevance
- right
- ritual
- role
- run
- serve
- service
- serviceability
- settlement
- stake
- stereotype
- steward
- stroke
- tackle
- take
- talk
- target
- title
- tradition
- treat
- trick
- trust
- usability
- usage
- usefulness
- utility
- value
- wage
- way
- wear
- wont
- work
- worth
use (v.)
- abuse
- account
- advantage
- apply
- avail
- benefit
- bestow
- bleed
- claim
- conduct
- control
- convenience
- custom
- demand
- do
- drain
- employ
- estate
- exercise
- exert
- exploit
- familiarize
- fashion
- follow
- function
- govern
- habit
- habituate
- handle
- ill-use
- impose
- interest
- inure
- manage
- manipulate
- mark
- milk
- misuse
- object
- occasion
- office
- operate
- parley
- part
- pattern
- play
- ply
- point
- practice
- profit
- prosecute
- purpose
- pursue
- regulate
- right
- role
- run
- serve
- service
- stake
- stereotype
- stroke
- tackle
- take
- talk
- target
- title
- treat
- trick
- trust
- undertake
- utilize
- value
- wage
- way
- wear
- wield
- work
use (adv.)
use (adj.)
Refrain to-night,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.
Thyself and thy belongings
Are not thine own so proper as to waste
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike
As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends
The smallest scruple of her excellence
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Herself the glory of a creditor,
Both thanks and use.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
Thus use your frog: put your hook—I mean the arming wire—through his mouth and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature. Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use.
And thus he bore without abuse
The grand old name of gentleman,
Defamed by every charlatan,
And soil'd with all ignoble use.
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give,
Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
'T is the same with common natures:
Use 'em kindly, they rebel;
But be rough as nutmeg-graters,
And the rogues obey you well.
These things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.
