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   usurer
         n 1: someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest
               [syn: {usurer}, {loan shark}, {moneylender}, {shylock}]

English Dictionary: usurer by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usurarious \U`su*ra"ri*ous\, Usurary \U"su*ra*ry\, a. [L.
      usurarius that serves for use, that pays interest. See
      {Usurer}.]
      Usurious. [Obs.] [bd]Usurarious contracts.[b8] --Jer. Taylor.
      Bp. Hall.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usurarious \U`su*ra"ri*ous\, Usurary \U"su*ra*ry\, a. [L.
      usurarius that serves for use, that pays interest. See
      {Usurer}.]
      Usurious. [Obs.] [bd]Usurarious contracts.[b8] --Jer. Taylor.
      Bp. Hall.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usurer \U"su*rer\, n. [F. usurier, LL. usurarius. See {Usury},
      and cf. {Usurarious}.]
      1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money
            lender. [Obs.]
  
                     If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor
                     by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer,
                     neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. --Ex. xxii.
                                                                              25.
  
      2. One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that
            established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of
            interest for the use of money.
  
                     He was wont to call me usurer.            --Shak.
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