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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.</def>

<h1>Customableness</h1> <Xpage=360>

<hw>Cus"tom*a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Quality of being customable; conformity to custom.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Customably</h1> <Xpage=360>

<hw>Cus"tom*a*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Usually.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Customarily</h1> <Xpage=360>

<hw>Cus"tom*a*ri*ly</hw> <tt>(-?-r?-l?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a customary manner; habitually.</def>

<h1>Customariness</h1> <Xpage=360>

<hw>Cus"tom*a*ri*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Quality of being customary.</def>

<h1>Customary</h1> <Xpage=360>

<hw>Cus"tom*a*ry</hw> <tt>(k?s"t?m-?-r?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[CF. OF. <ets>coustumier</ets>, F. <ets>coutumier</ets>. See <er>Custom</er>, and cf. <er>Customer</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.</def>

<blockquote>Even now I met him With <b>customary</b> compliment. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A formal <b>customary</b> attendance upon the offices. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Holding or held by custom; <as>as, <ex>customary</ex> tenants; <ex>customary</ex> service or estate.</as></def>

<h1>Customary</h1> <Xpage=360>

<hw>Cus"tom*a*ry</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>coustumier</ets>, F. <ets>coutumier</ets>.]</ety> <def>A book containing laws and usages, or customs; <as>as, the <ex>Customary</ex> of the Normans</as>.</def>

<i>Cowell.</i>

<h1>Customer</h1> <Xpage=360>

<hw>Cus"tom*er</hw> <tt>(k?s"t?m-?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[A doublet of <ets>customary</ets>, <ets>a.</ets>: cf. LL. <ets>custumarius</ets> toll gatherer. See <er>Custom</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The <b>customers</b> of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. <i>Hakluyt.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.</def>

<blockquote>He has got at last the character of a good <b>customer</b>; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A person with whom a business house has dealings; <as>as, the <ex>customers</ex> of a bank</as>.</def>

<i>J. A. H. Murray.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; <as>as, a queer <ex>customer</ex>; an ugly <ex>customer</ex>.</as></def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>