Now dial. [f. USE sb. 5 b.] = INTEREST sb. 10. Also fig.
1616. Healey, Theophrastus, 66. When he coms to his debtors for his vsemony.
1626. Middleton, Anything for Quiet Life, I. i. Never did any man thrive that purchased with use-money.
1656. Trapp, 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.
1700. T. 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).
1874. T. Hardy, Far fr. Mad. Crowd, viii. When the use-money is gied away to the second-best poor folk.
