Word Meanings - UNUSAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.

USAGE
1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak.
USAGER
One who has the use of anything in trust for another. Daniel.
HOUSAGE
A fee for keeping goods in a house. Chambers.
DISUSAGE
Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. Hooker.
SPOUSAGE
Espousal. Bale.
ESPOUSAGE
Espousal. Latimer.
MISUSAGE
Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.
SAUSAGE
1. An article of food consisting of meat minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm.
UNUSAGE
Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.
SUPERPLUSAGE
Surplusage. "There yet remained a superplusage." Bp. Fell.
ABUSAGE
Abuse. Whately .
SURPLUSAGE
Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected. (more info) 1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser.