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Definitions of usage

1. accepted or habitual practice Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

2. the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

3. Experience. Webster Dictionary DB

4. 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. Webster Dictionary DB

5. Manners; conduct; behavior. Webster Dictionary DB

6. Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method. Webster Dictionary DB

7. Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification. Webster Dictionary DB

8. The act or mode of using; treatment; settled habit; habitual employment by people at large. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

9. Act or mode of using: treatment: practice: custom. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

10. The manner of using or treating a person or thing. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

11. A custom. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

12. Treatment; long-continued use; custom; practice; the customary application of a word. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

13. Treatment; a series of actions performed by one person to another which affects him for good or evil; custom; practice. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

14. Usage is a reasonable and lawful public custom concerning transactions of the same nature as those which are to be effected thereby, existing at the place where the obligation is to be performed, and either known to the parties, or so well established, general, and uniform that they must be presumed to have acted with reference thereto. Civ. Code Dak. thelawdictionary.org

15. [=u]'z[=a]j, n. act or mode of using: treatment: practice: custom.--ns. U'SAGER, one of the non-jurors who maintained 'the usages'--mixed chalices, oblation in prayer of consecration, and prayer for the dead. [Fr.,--Low L.,--L. usus.] gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

16. Manner of using or treating, treatment, as met with harsh u., damaged by rough u.; habitual or customary practice esp. as creating a right or obligation or standard, as sanctified by u., an ancient u., contrary to the u. of the best writers; (Law) habitual but not necessarily immemorial practice. [Middle English] Concise Oxford Dictionary

17. n. [French] from [Latin] Act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment-long-continued practice; habitual use ;— legal custom; prescription ;—ordinary employment, as of a word in a particular sense or signification. Cabinet Dictionary