Definition of disuse

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Disuse (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse..

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Court-baron :: Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse..
Baritone :: Baritone (n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused..
Disuse :: Disuse (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse..
Astrolabe :: Astrolabe (n.) An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.
Inusitation :: Inusitation (n.) Want of use; disuse.
Flat-cap :: Flat-cap (n.) A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London..
Lamarckism :: Lamarckism (n.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs..
Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
Disusage :: Disusage (n.) Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.
Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
Pair :: Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. A pair of beads. Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. Four pair of stairs. Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].
Disacquaintance :: Disacquaintance (n.) Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance..
Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil..
Desuetude :: Desuetude (n.) The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion..
Disused :: Disused (imp. & p. p.) of Disus.
Triangle :: Triangle (n.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused..
Obsolete :: Obsolete (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..
Digamma :: Digamma (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse..
Imprescriptible :: Imprescriptible (a.) Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription..
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