Product Actions. 1  Christmas is right around the corner and Jules Daly (Kate McGrath) is doing her best to create a loving home as new guardian to her mischievous niece and nephew.
As a general definition, usury is loaning money at extravagant interest rates. The legal definition varies. The practiced of lending money to people, especially making them pay unfairly high rates of interest. As a general definition, usury is loaning money at extravagant interest rates. The legal definition varies.
This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning to swindle or to make a fool of. The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb to dawdle, which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.