ppl. a. Obs. Also 6 usering. [f. USURE sb. or v. + -ING2.]

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  1.  Of persons: Practising or given to usury; usurious.

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1593.  Munday, Def. Contraries, 37. I shall see no more … the vsuring Geneway, nor the boasting Modenan.

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1622.  Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 178. My Vsuring Merchant had hanging at his girdle a paire of kniues.

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1681.  Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 22. The fatherless and widows portion, Which usuring fathers lent to lairds.

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1710.  Brit. Apollo, II. No. 105. 3/1. Streight to a Usuring Dog I hurry’d.

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  fig. and transf.  1598.  Marlowe & Chapman, Hero & Leander, VI. 266. Filthie vsering Rocks that would haue blood, Though they could get of him no other good.

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a. 1640.  J. Day, Parl. Bees, x. (1881), 60. Fenerator, Or the Vsuring Bee.

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  2.  Looking for ample return or increase; causing cost without return. rare.

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1607.  Shaks., Timon, IV. iii. 516. Is not thy kindnesse subtle, couetous, If not a Vsuring kindnesse, and … Expecting in returne twenty for one?

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1609.  Heywood, Brit. Troy, VII. viii. The barraine fieldes deceive the Plow-mans trust, The usuring seede is molded unto dust.

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