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Usurper
n.
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One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.
Usury
v. t.
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A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
Usury
v. t.
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The practice of taking interest.
Usury
v. t.
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Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
Ut
n.
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The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.
Utas
n.
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The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael.
Utas
n.
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Hence, festivity; merriment.
Utensil
v. t.
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That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.
Uterine
a.
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Of or instrument to the uterus, or womb.
Uterine
a.
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Born of the same mother, but by a different father.
Uterogestation
n.
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Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy.
Uterovaginal
n.
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Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.
Uterus
n.
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The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.
Uterus
n.
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A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.
Utes
n. pl.
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An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.
Utia
n.
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Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genus Capromys, or Utia. In general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits.
Utica
a.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.
Utile
v. t.
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Profitable; useful.
Utilitarian
a.
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Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; /iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.
Utilitarian
a.
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Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the Utilitarian Society.
Utilitarian
n.
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One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.
Utilitarianism
n.
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The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.
Utilitarianism
n.
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The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe.
Utilitarianism
n.
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The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.
Utility
n.
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The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
Utility
n.
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Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.
Utility
n.
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Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.
Utilizable
a.
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Capable of being utilized; as, the utilizable products of the gas works.
Utilization
n.
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The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.
Utilized
imp. & p. p.
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of Utilize