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Idiom :: Idiom (n.) An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular author..

Ream :: Ream (v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer..

Usage :: Usage (n.) Manners; conduct; behavior.

Fashion :: Fashion (n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion..

Sausage :: Sausage (n.) A saucisson. See Saucisson.

Eclogue :: Eclogue (n.) A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established..

Superpolitic :: Superplusage (n.) Surplusage.

Wont :: Wont (n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.

Lady :: Lady (n.) A wife; -- not now in approved usage.

Ship :: Ship (v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad..

Dilapidated :: Dilapidated (a.) Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.

Custom :: Custom (n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..

Gas :: Gas (n.) An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state..

Ban :: Ban (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army..

Modernize :: Modernize (v. t.) To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

Conventionality :: Conventionality (n.) The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

Usurpation :: Usurpation (n.) Use; usage; custom.

Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..

Bologna :: Bologna (n.) A Bologna sausage.

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