I . n.
1.
Employment, application, appliance, exercise, practice, conversion to an act or purpose.
2.
Advantage, benefit, utility, service, pront, ~fulness, avail.
3.
Occasion, need, necessity.
4.
Usage, custom, habit, customary employment, practice, exercise.
II . v. a.
1.
Employ, apply, make ~ of, avail one's self of, take advantage of, turn to account, make the most of, put in requisition, bring into play.
2.
Practise, exercise, put to ~.
3.
Expend, consume, waste, exhaust.
4.
Accustom, habituate, inure, familiarize, train, render familiar by practice.
5.
Treat, deal with, act or behave toward.
III . v. n.
Be accustomed, be wont.