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   uakari
         n 1: medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin; only
               New World monkey with a short tail

English Dictionary: uxor by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Uighur
n
  1. a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
    Synonym(s): Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
  2. the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
    Synonym(s): Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
  3. the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
    Synonym(s): Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Uigur
n
  1. a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
    Synonym(s): Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
  2. the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
    Synonym(s): Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
  3. the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
    Synonym(s): Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
user
n
  1. a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
  2. a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically
    Synonym(s): exploiter, user
  3. a person who takes drugs
    Synonym(s): drug user, substance abuser, user
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Usher
n
  1. Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
    Synonym(s): Ussher, James Ussher, Usher, James Usher
  2. an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
    Synonym(s): usher, doorkeeper
  3. someone employed to conduct others
    Synonym(s): usher, guide
v
  1. take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums; "The usher showed us to our seats"
    Synonym(s): usher, show
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ussher
n
  1. Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
    Synonym(s): Ussher, James Ussher, Usher, James Usher
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
USSR
n
  1. a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
    Synonym(s): Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
usury
n
  1. an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest [syn: usury, vigorish]
  2. the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
uxor
n
  1. (legal terminology) the Latin word for wife [syn: uxor, ux.]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Uygur
n
  1. a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
    Synonym(s): Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
  2. the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
    Synonym(s): Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
  3. the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
    Synonym(s): Uighur, Uigur, Uygur
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Uakari \Ua*ka"ri\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Same as {Ouakari}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   User \Us"er\, n.
      1. One who uses. --Shak.
  
      2. (Law) Enjoyment of property; use. --Mozley & W.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usher \Ush"er\, n. [OE. ussher, uschere, OF. ussier, uisser,
      oissier, hussier, huissier, fr. L. ostiarius a doorkeeper,
      fr. ostium a door, entrance, fr. os mouth. See {Oral}, and
      cf. {Ostiary}.]
      1. An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a
            court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose
            business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a
            person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in
            a church, theater, etc. [bd]The ushers and the
            squires.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                     These are the ushers of Marcius.         --Shak.
  
      Note: There are various officers of this kind attached to the
               royal household in England, including the gentleman
               usher of the black rod, who attends in the House of
               Peers during the sessions of Parliament, and twelve or
               more gentlemen ushers. See {Black rod}.
  
      2. An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usher \Ush"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ushered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Ushering}.]
      To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or
      harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth;
      as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to
      usher a visitor into the room.
  
               The stars that usher evening rose.         --Milton.
  
               The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter,
               setting forth the great genius of the author.
                                                                              --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usure \U"sure\ (?; 115), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Usured}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Usuring}.] [Cf. OF. usurer, LL. usurare.]
      To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest. [Obs.]
      [bd]The usuringb senate.[b8] --Shak.
  
               I usured not ne to me usured any man.      --Wyclif (Jer.
                                                                              xv. 10).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usure \U"sure\, n. [F.]
      Usury. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
  
               Foul usure and lucre of villainy.            --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Usury \U"su*ry\, n. [OE. usurie, usure, F. usure, L. usura use,
      usury, interest, fr. uti, p. p. usus, to use. See {Use}, v.
      t.]
      1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for
            a loan, as of money; interest. [Obs. or Archaic]
  
                     Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury
                     of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that
                     is lent upon usury.                           --Deut. xxiii.
                                                                              19.
  
                     Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the
                     exchanges, and then at my coming I should have
                     received mine own with usury.            --Matt. xxv.
                                                                              27.
  
                     What he borrows from the ancients, he repays with
                     usury of [?][?]is own.                        --Dryden.
  
      2. The practice of taking interest. [Obs.]
  
                     Usury . . . bringeth the treasure of a realm or
                     state into a few [?][?]nds.               --Bacon.
  
      3. (Law) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a
            borrower for the use of money.
  
      Note: The practice of requiring in repayment of money lent
               anything more than the amount lent, was formerly
               thought to be a great moral wrong, and the greater, the
               more was taken. Now it is not deemed more wrong to take
               pay for the use of money than for the use of a house,
               or a horse, or any other property. But the lingering
               influence of the former opinion, together with the fact
               that the nature of money makes it easier for the lender
               to oppress the borrower, has caused nearly all
               Christian nations to fix by law the rate of
               compensation for the use of money. Of late years,
               however, the opinion that money should be borrowed and
               repaid, or bought and sold, upon whatever terms the
               parties should agree to, like any other property, has
               gained ground everywhere. --Am. Cyc.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   user n.   1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer, using
   it as a means rather than an end.   Someone who pays to use a
   computer.   See {real user}.   2. A programmer who will believe
   anything you tell him.   One who asks silly questions.   [GLS
   observes: This is slightly unfair.   It is true that users ask
   questions (of necessity).   Sometimes they are thoughtful or deep.
   Very often they are annoying or downright stupid, apparently because
   the user failed to think for two seconds or look in the
   documentation before bothering the maintainer.]   See {luser}.   3.
   Someone who uses a program from the outside, however skillfully,
   without getting into the internals of the program.   One who reports
   bugs instead of just going ahead and fixing them.
  
      The general theory behind this term is that there are two classes
   of people who work with a program: there are implementors (hackers)
   and {luser}s.   The users are looked down on by hackers to some
   extent because they don't understand the full ramifications of the
   system in all its glory.   (The few users who do are known as `real
   winners'.)   The term is a relative one: a skilled hacker may be a
   user with respect to some program he himself does not hack.   A LISP
   hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses LISP (but
   with the skill of a hacker).   A LISP user is one who uses LISP,
   whether skillfully or not.   Thus there is some overlap between the
   two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by context.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   user
  
      1. Someone doing "real work" with the computer, using
      it as a means rather than an end.   Someone who pays to use a
      computer.   A programmer who will believe anything you tell
      him.   One who asks silly questions without thinking for two
      seconds or looking in the documentation.   Someone who uses a
      program, however skillfully, without getting into the
      internals of the program.   One who reports {bug}s instead of
      just fixing them.   See also {luser}, {real user}.
  
      Users are looked down on by {hackers} to some extent because
      they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in
      all its glory.   The term is relative: a skilled hacker may be
      a user with respect to some program he himself does not hack.
      A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses
      LISP (but with the skill of a hacker).   A LISP user is one who
      uses LISP, whether skillfully or not.   Thus there is some
      overlap between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be
      resolved by context.
  
      2. Any person, organisation, process, device,
      program, {protocol}, or system which uses a service provided
      by others.
  
      The term "{client}" (as in "{client-server}" systems) is
      rather more specific, usually implying two processes
      communicating via some protocol.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1996-04-28)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   USR
  
      {U.S. Robotics, Inc.}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   usr
  
      User.   The "/usr" directory hierarchy on {Unix} systems.   Once
      upon a time, in the early days of Unix, this area actually
      held users' home directories and files.   Since these tend to
      expand much faster than system files, /usr would be mounted on
      the biggest disk on the system.   The root directory, "/" in
      contrast, contains only what is needed to {boot} the {kernel},
      after which /usr and other disks could be mounted as part of
      the multi-user start-up process.
  
      /usr has been used as the "everything else" area, with many
      "system" files such as compiler libraries (/usr/include,
      /usr/lib), utilty programs (/usr/bin, /usr/ucb), games
      (/usr/games), local additions (/usr/local), manuals
      (/usr/man), temporary files and queues for various {daemon}s
      (/usr/spool).   These optional extras have grown in size as
      Unix has evolved and disks have dropped in price.   Under later
      versions of {SunOS}, the user files have fled /usr altogether
      for a new "/home" {partition} and temporary files have moved
      to "/var".   This allows /usr to be mounted read-only with some
      gain in security and performance since access times are not
      updated for files on read-only file systems.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   USR
  
      {U.S. Robotics, Inc.}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   usr
  
      User.   The "/usr" directory hierarchy on {Unix} systems.   Once
      upon a time, in the early days of Unix, this area actually
      held users' home directories and files.   Since these tend to
      expand much faster than system files, /usr would be mounted on
      the biggest disk on the system.   The root directory, "/" in
      contrast, contains only what is needed to {boot} the {kernel},
      after which /usr and other disks could be mounted as part of
      the multi-user start-up process.
  
      /usr has been used as the "everything else" area, with many
      "system" files such as compiler libraries (/usr/include,
      /usr/lib), utilty programs (/usr/bin, /usr/ucb), games
      (/usr/games), local additions (/usr/local), manuals
      (/usr/man), temporary files and queues for various {daemon}s
      (/usr/spool).   These optional extras have grown in size as
      Unix has evolved and disks have dropped in price.   Under later
      versions of {SunOS}, the user files have fled /usr altogether
      for a new "/home" {partition} and temporary files have moved
      to "/var".   This allows /usr to be mounted read-only with some
      gain in security and performance since access times are not
      updated for files on read-only file systems.
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Usury
      the sum paid for the use of money, hence interest; not, as in
      the modern sense, exorbitant interest. The Jews were forbidden
      to exact usury (Lev. 25:36, 37), only, however, in their
      dealings with each other (Deut. 23:19, 20). The violation of
      this law was viewed as a great crime (Ps. 15:5; Prov. 28:8; Jer.
      15:10). After the Return, and later, this law was much neglected
      (Neh. 5:7, 10).
     
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