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Usnic
- - Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens (Usnea, Parmelia, etc.).
Usual
- adjective - commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"
- Customary practice
- Normal
- occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime"
Usuli
- noun - a religious movement by Persian Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iran that is opposed to the Akhbari; "Usuli Shiism produced the politically active caste of priests that is a distinctive feature of Iranian Shiism"
Usure
- - To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest.
Usurp
- verb - seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"
- take the place of; "gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke"
Usury
- noun - an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
- the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest