Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Usher \Ush"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ushered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Ushering}.]
   To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or
   harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth;
   as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to
   usher a visitor into the room.

         The stars that usher evening rose.       --Milton.

         The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter,
         setting forth the great genius of the author.
                                                  --Addison.