| 释义 |
ˈuse-money Now dial.
[f. use n. 5 b.]
= interest n. 10. Also fig.
1616Healey Theophrastus 66 When he coms to his debtors for his vsemony. 1626Middleton Anything for Quiet Life i. i, Never did any man thrive that purchased with use-money. 1656Trapp Comm. (ed. 2) Matt. v. 26 All that wicked men suffer here is but a paying the use-money required for that dreadful debt, that must be paid at last. 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 29 There sneaks a Hunger-starv'd Usurer in quest of a Crasie Citizen for Use and Continuance-Money. 1849–in dialect use (Durham, Cumbld., Yks., Lincs., Somerset). 1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd viii, When the use-money is gied away to the second-best poor folk. |