vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb, in various senses. Also with in.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., V. ii. 328. Nay he can sing A meane most meanly, and in Vshering Mend him who can.
a. 1613. Overbury, Characters, A Fine Gentleman. Afterwards he maintaines himselfe an implement of houshold, by carving and ushering.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xxx. 247. At the ushering in [F. l’apport] of the Second Service, Panurge … [made] a low Reverence.
1850. O. Winslow, Inner Life, x. 273. The ushering in of that great event.
1851. Gallenga, Italy, i. 21. The ushering in of a new political phasis.
1866. Trollope, Claverings, ii. Even though he had earned that money by ‘ushering’ for the last two years.
