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ˈLubish, a. Comm. Obs. exc. Hist. Also 6 Lub(b)is, Lubyes, Lup, Lupis, 7 Lupish, Lups, Lubeck(e)s, 9 Lubesh, Lubs. [a. G. lübisch, Du. lubeksch, f. Lübeck, Lubeck.] Of or belonging to Lubeck, a town of northern Germany, formerly a member of the Hanseatic League. 1. In mark Lubish, schilling Lubish, denominations belonging to a money of account formerly in extensive mercantile use in North Germany.
15..Aberdeen Reg. (Jam.), xij Lubbis sh, xx merkis Lubis. 1563Ibid. XXV. (Jam.), Aucht daleris & tuelf Lup schilling... To pay x sh. for ilk mark lupis. c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 88 One thousand lubyes stok fish is ane last. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 177 The Mariners are to haue two shillings lups for euery Last for doing of it. Ibid. 415 The said Doller was valued at two markes Lubish, euery marke being sixteene shillings Lubish. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Lubs or Lubesh, a term applied to the money of Lubeck and Hamburgh, as sterling is to English money. 1858Homans Cycl. Comm. 1324/2 The mark Lubs, or Lubec mark, used at Hamburgh, is a money of account, equal to 29½ cents. †b. transf. Genuine, authorized. Cf. sterling.
1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 271 Although they be bastards & wooden blocks, yet are they better clad, then their lupish legitimate ones. †2. Lubecks beer: a strong beer brewed at Lubeck.
[1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. E 1 b, Thy horses..shall kneed vp to the knees..in spruce beere and lubeck licour.] 1608Heywood Rape of Lucrece sig. E 4 Were it in Lubeckes or double double beere their owne naturall liquor i'de pledge it. 1639H. Glapthorne Albertus Wallenstein iii. iii. F 3 b, I thinke you'r drunk With Lubecks beere or Brunswicks Mum. |