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Practice :: Practice (n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used.

Sea Letter :: Sea letter () The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.

Anthropography :: Anthropography (n.) That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations..

Harden :: Harden (v. t.) To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable..

Eisteddfod :: Eisteddfod (n.) Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom..

Tradition :: Tradition (n.) Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed..

Douane :: Douane (n.) A customhouse.

Frequenter :: Frequenter (n.) One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily..

Office :: Office (n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices..

Accustom :: Accustom (v. i.) To cohabit.

Inure :: Inure (v. t.) To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually.

Local :: Local (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom..

Itinerancy :: Itinerancy (n.) A discharge of official duty involving frequent change of residence; the custom or practice of discharging official duty in this way; also, a body of persons who thus discharge official duty..

Customary :: Customary (n.) A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans..

Manifest :: Manifest (a.) A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse..

Europeanize :: Europeanize (v. t.) To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.

Strong :: Strong (superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief..

Assuetude :: Assuetude (n.) Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Old :: Old (superl.) Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly..

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