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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Custom \Cus"tom\, 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Custom \Cus"tom\, v. i. To have a custom. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] On a bridge he custometh to fight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Custom \Cus"tom\, 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Custom \Cus"tom\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m), 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] Note: 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Custom \Cus"tom\, v. t. To pay the customs of. [Obs.] --Marlowe. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: custom adj 1: made according to the specifications of an individual [syn: {custom-made}, {custom}] [ant: {ready-made}] n 1: accepted or habitual practice [syn: {custom}, {usage}, {usance}] 2: a specific practice of long standing [syn: {custom}, {tradition}] 3: money collected under a tariff [syn: {customs}, {customs duty}, {custom}, {impost}] 4: habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"