*cust*

v. i. 1. To be wont. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cohabit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Custom. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Habitual; customary; wonted. “Accustomable goodness.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. accoustumance, F. accoutumance. ] Custom; habitual use. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Customarily. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Usual; customary. [ Archaic ] Featley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Familiar through use; usual; customary. “An accustomed action.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Frequented by customers. [ Obs. ] “A well accustomed shop.” Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Habituation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Accustomance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See Crust, and cf. Crustated. ] A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (Anona squamosa, Anona reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. --
Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. or It. custode, fr. L. custos, -odis. ] See Custodian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. custodial, fr. L. custodia. See Custody. ] Relating to custody or guardianship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Custody. ] One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Office or duty of a custodian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. custodiarus. ] A custodian. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. custodia, fr. custos guard; prob. akin to Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to hide, and E. hide. Seee Hide to cover. ] 1. A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Judicial or penal safe-keeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jailer, take him to thy custody. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

What pease will be given
To us enslaved, but custody severe,
And stripes and arbitrary punishment? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To have a custom. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

On a bridge he custometh to fight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prob. originally, to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E. so, adv. Cf. Consuetude, Costume. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. [ 1913 Webster ]

And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A custom
More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let him have your custom, but not your votes. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Age can not wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. --
General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom. --
Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.

Syn. -- Practice; fashion. See Habit, and Usage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. Accustom. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make familiar; to accustom. [ Obs. ] Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To supply with customers. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st Custom. ] 1. The customary toll, tax, or tribute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pay the customs of. [ Obs. ] Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. coustumable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Customary. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Usually. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a customary manner; habitually. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being customary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even now I met him
With customary compliment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. ] A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A doublet of customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See Custom. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A lewd woman. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. [ 1913 Webster ]

Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to make to specifications.
Syn. -- custom-make, taylor-make. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to make according to requirements.
Syn. -- customise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. made specially for a specific purpose; -- of articles of manufacture. Contrasted with mass-produced, standardized.
Syn. -- made-to-order. [ PJC WordNet 1.5 ]

2. made or tailored to fit a specific person; -- of clothing. Contrasted with off-the-rack, ready-to-wear. a custom-made suit
Syn. -- made-to-order. [ PJC ]

n. pl. 1. money collected under a tariff; a duty imposed on imported goods.
Syn. -- customs duty, custom, impost. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the government department administering the collection of import tariffs. Used with as singular verb. [ PJC ]

3. that area within an airport, sea port, or other border station where freight or the baggage of travellers is checked for dutiable materials or contraband; as, it took an hour to get through customs. [ PJC ]

‖n.; pl. Custodes [ L. ] A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Custos rotulorum ety>[ LL., keeper of the rolls ] (Eng. Law), the principal justice of the peace in a county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coustillier. See Coistril. ] An armor-bearer to a knight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Costrel. [ Obs. ] Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Customary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. désaccoutumer. ] To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. lacus lake: cf. F. lacustral, lacustre. ] Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lacustrine deposits (Geol.), the deposits which have been accumulated in fresh-water areas. --
Lacustrine dwellings. See Lake dwellings, under Lake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. locusta locust, grasshopper. Cf. Lobster. ] 1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididæ, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda migratoria, syn. Pachytylus migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the south of Asia as to devour every green thing; and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud. In the United States the harvest flies are improperly called locusts. See Cicada. [ 1913 Webster ]

Locust beetle (Zool.), a longicorn beetle (Cyllene robiniæ), which, in the larval state, bores holes in the wood of the locust tree. Its color is brownish black, barred with yellow. Called also locust borer. --
Locust bird (Zool.) the rose-colored starling or pastor of India. See Pastor. --
Locust hunter (Zool.), an African bird; the beefeater. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Bot.) The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases). [ 1913 Webster ]

Locust bean (Bot.), a commercial name for the sweet pod of the carob tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL.: cf. locuste. ] (Bot.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. L. locusta a locust. ] (Zool.) The European cricket warbler. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Swarming and devastating like locusts. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Bot.) A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (Robinia Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to other trees of different genera, especially to those of the genus Hymenæa, of which Hymenæa Courbaril is a lofty, spreading tree of South America; also to the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), a tree growing in the Mediterranean region. [ 1913 Webster ]

Honey locust tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Gleditschia ) Gleditschia triacanthus), having pinnate leaves and strong branching thorns; -- so called from a sweet pulp found between the seeds in the pods. Called also simply honey locust. --
Water locust tree (Bot.), a small swamp tree (Gleditschia monosperma), of the Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. [ 1913 Webster ]

What unaccustomed cause procures her hither? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not customable, or subject to customs duties. [ 1913 Webster ]