Meanings of usance in English

Hashtag my usance, I don't know what that means either.

When the steed recovered, bold Siegfried took on a frightful usance in the fray.

They have suffered this to become usance also.

He knew that a debt to folly bears no grace, and was ready with his principal and usance.

He it was who prepared their bonds and contracts, and placed out their ill-gotten gains at exorbitant usance.

But 'tis to much purpose to evade it; the common custom and usance of life will have it so.

For its usance I send a package of a new herb from the Chesapeake, called by the natives tobacco.

And two usance is two months; reckoning not from the acceptance of the bill, but from the date of it.

Everything in it, tolerable or intolerable, will have but one use; and that use what our ancestors used to call usance or usury.

Be warned that unless the 8 shillings and the usance thereof be forthcoming, the town-crier shall notify the sale of the sundry articles named.

Whereupon, after certain fowls had sung a roundel, "as was always the usance," the assembly, like some human Parliaments, breaks up with shouting;

Usance from Genoa to Rome is payable at Rome ten days after sight.

Usance from Antwerp or Amsterdam, payable at Venice, is two months, payable in bank.

Usance between Antwerp and Genoa, Naples or Messina, is two months, whether to or from.

Usance from London to Seville, is two months; as likewise between London and Lisbon, and Oporto, to or from.

Usance payable at Florence or Leghorn, is two months; but from thence payable at London, usance is three months.