Books can never teach the use of books. Bacon.

This Davy serves you for good uses. Shak.

When he framed
All things to man's delightful use. Milton.

God made two great lights, great for their use
To man. Milton.

'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. Pope.

Let later age that noble use envy. Spenser.

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak.

O Cæsar! these things are beyond all use. Shak.

From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use. Pref. to Book of Common Prayer.

Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him. Jer. Taylor.

Contingent, or Springing, use (Law), a use to come into operation on a future uncertain event. -- In use. (a) In employment; in customary practice observance. (b) In heat; -- said especially of mares. J. H. Walsh. -- Of no use, useless; of no advantage. -- Of use, useful; of advantage; profitable. -- Out of use, not in employment. -- Resulting use (Law), a use, which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and results or returns to him who raised it, after such expiration. -- Secondary, or Shifting, use, a use which, though executed, may change from one to another by circumstances. Blackstone. -- Statute of uses (Eng. Law), the stat. 27 Henry VIII., cap. 10, which transfers uses into possession, or which unites the use and possession. -- To make use of, To put to use, to employ; to derive service from; to use.

Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs. Shak.

Some other means I have which may be used. Milton.

How wouldst thou use me now? Milton.

Cato has used me ill. Addison.

Use hospitality one to another. 1 Pet. iv. 9.

I am so used in the fire to blow. Chaucer.

Thou with thy compeers,
Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels. Milton.

To use one's self, to behave. [Obs.] "Pray, forgive me, if I have used myself unmannerly." Shak. -- To use up. (a) To consume or exhaust by using; to leave nothing of; as, to use up the supplies. (b) To exhaust; to tire out; to leave no capacity of force or use in; to overthrow; as, he was used up by fatigue. [Colloq.]

Syn. -- Employ. -- Use, Employ. We use a thing, or make use of it, when we derive from it some enjoyment or service. We employ it when we turn that service into a particular channel. We use words to express our general meaning; we employ certain technical terms in reference to a given subject. To make use of, implies passivity in the thing; as, to make use of a pen; and hence there is often a material difference between the two words when applied to persons. To speak of "making use of another" generally implies a degrading idea, as if we had used him as a tool; while employ has no such sense. A confidential friend is employed to negotiate; an inferior agent is made use of on an intrigue.

I would, my son, that thou wouldst use the power
Which thy discretion gives thee, to control
And manage all. Cowper.

To study nature will thy time employ:
Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy. Dryden.

They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone. Spenser.

Fears use to be represented in an imaginary. Bacon.

Thus we use to say, it is the room that smokes, when indeed it is the fire in the room. South.

Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp. Ex. xxxiii. 7 (Rev. Ver.)

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.