a. Obs. rare. [f. USURE sb. + -OUS.] = USURIOUS a.
1605. Chapman, etc., Eastw. Hoe, II. B 4. I am now loose, to get more children of perdition into my vsurous bonds.
1616. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., V. v. Wks. 165. I referre mee to your vsurous Cannibals, or such like.
c. 1624. Chapman, Batrach., 270. I can by no means th’ usurous darner move To let me have the mantle to restore.
1738. trans. Guazzo’s Art Convers., 53. The usurous Contracts he made with certain poor Men.
1794. W. Blake, Songs of Exper., Holy Thursday, i. Babes. Fed with cold and usurous band.
