custom
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Is custom a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (dated outside UK) Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.Examples: "Thank you for your custom."; "Let him have your custom, but not your votes."countableuncountable
2. (dated outside UK) Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.collectivecountableuncountable
3. (law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. Compare prescription.Examples: "The distinction between custom and usage it that usage is a fact and custom is a law. There can be usage without custom, but not custom without usage."Synonyms: usagecountableuncountable
4. (obsolete) Familiar acquaintance; familiarity.Examples: "Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety."countableobsoleteuncountable
5. (archaic, uncountable) Toll, tax, or tribute.Examples: "Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour."archaicuncountable
adj (English)
1. (especially agriculture) Done on a for-hire basis, as contrasted with being done only for oneself.Examples: "custom threshing"; "custom baling"; "The amount of high-end equipment that he maintains is justified by the fact that he does a lot of custom tillage and combining."especiallynot-comparable
2. (archaic) Accustomed; usual.archaicnot-comparable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To make familiar; to accustom.Examples: "a. 1771 (written, published posthumously) Thomas Gray, Agrippina Have not forgot your sire; the eye of Rome And the Prætorian camp have long revered, With customed awe the daughter, sister, wife, And mother of their Cæsars"obsoletetransitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To supply with customers.Examples: "But yet a man might reply, that if a Shooemaker ſhould haue no Shooes in his Shoppe, but onely worke, as hee is beſpoken, hee ſhould bee weakley cuſtomed."obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the customs of.Examples: "Barabas, thy ships are safe, Riding in Malta Rhode; and all the merchants With other merchandize are safe arriv'd, And have sent me to know whether yourself Will come and custom them."obsoletetransitive
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To have a custom.Examples: "For on a Bridge he cuſtometh to fight, / Which is but narrow, but exceeding long; / And in the ſame are many trap fals pight, / Through which the rider downe doth fall through ouerſight."intransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary