USAAR, Ind. The name of a month, which partly corresponds with June; it follows Jeyt.
To USE. To employ to any particular purpose; to bring into action; as he his choicest troops on that decisive day.
USTENSILES, Fr. The necessary articles which a soldier has a right to be supplied with.
Ustensiles de magazins, Fr. Under this word are comprehended all the various tools, implements, &c. which are required in military magazines and storehouses.
Ustensiles d’un vaisseau, Fr. Every thing which is necessary in the navigation of a ship.
Ustensiles de canon, Fr. Every thing which is required to load and unload a piece of ordnance, viz. the rammer, spunge, priming horn, wedges, &c.
UTENSILS. In a military sense, are necessaries due to every soldier.
In the British service it is directed to be provided for the use of regimental hospitals, that each hospital ought to be furnished with a slipper bath, or bathing tub, two water buckets, one dozen of Osnaburgh towels, one dozen of flannel cloths, half a dozen of large sponges, combs, razors, and soap; two large kettles capable of making soup for 30 men, two large tea kettles, two large tea pots, two sauce pans, 40 tin cans of one pint each, 40 spoons, one dozen of knives and forks, two close stools, two bed-pans, and two urinals.
A regiment, consisting of 1000 men, and provided with three medical persons, ought to be furnished with hospital necessaries and utensils for at least 40 patients. It should be provided with 40 cotton night caps, 40 sets of bedding, in the proportion of four for every hundred men; each set consisting of one paillasse, one straw mattrass, one bolster, three sheets, two blankets, and one rug.
For regiments of a smaller number, the quantity of hospital necessaries will of course be proportionally reduced.