[Sca-cooks] Spanish tomato sauce, late 16th c.? -- from Gerarde's Herball 1597

[Terry Decker]

> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:
>
>> If we are parsing sentences, consider the phrase "they vse to eate" which
>> suggests that they ate at one time, but do not do so now.
>
> My understanding of "use" in that context is that it means "it is
> their usage to--"; ie., it is their current practice.
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain

Reasonable.  I'll have to dig out the OED and see what it says about the 
definition of use over time.  I fear I'm thinking "modern usage" and I need 
a different perspective.

Bear