Is this the balsam that the usuring senate
Pours into captains' wounds?

Timon of Athens, iii. 5.
Is not thy kindness subtle-covetous,
If not a usuring kindness, and, as rich men deal gifts,
Expecting in return twenty for one? Ibid. iv. 3.

To USURP. To assume; to adopt; to borrow; to encroach; to seize upon; to destroy.

It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from his state, and usurp the beggary he was never born to. Measure for Measure, iii. 2.

Rather than so, come, fate, into the list,

And champion me to the utterance! Macbeth, iii. 1. Which he to seek of me again, perforce,

Behoves me keep at utterance.

Cymbeline, iii. 1.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood.
Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.

UTIS. The eight days following a religious festival, which were formerly devoted to feasting and merriment.

By the mass, here will be old utis: it will be an excellent stratagem. Henry 4, P. 2, ii. 4.

To VAIL. To lower; to let fall; to disperse.

Do not for ever with thy vailed lids

Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Hamlet, i. 2.

If he have power,
Then vail your ignorance. Coriolanus, iii. 1.
And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,
Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs.

Merchant of Venice, i. 1.
Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud,
Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown,
Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
Love's Labour's lost, v. 2.

VAILFUL. Availful; advantageous; beneficial.

V.

No less in space, validity, and pleasure, Than that conferr'd on Goneril.

Naught enters there

King Lear, i. 1.

Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute.

Twelfth-Night, i. 1.

VALUATION. Reputation; credit.

Ay, but our valuation shall be such,
That every slight and false-devisèd cause,
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason,
Shall to the king taste of this action.

Henry 4, P. 2, iv. 1.

To VALUE. To weigh; to take account of; to consider.

By which account,
Our business valued, some twelve days hence
Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet.
Henry 4, P. 1, iii. 2.

Henry 5, ii. 4.