Lubishadj.
Commerce. Obsolete exc. Historical.
Of or belonging to Lubeck, a town of northern Germany, formerly a member of the Hanseatic League.† 2. Lubecks beer n. a strong beer brewed at Lubeck.
1. † b. transferred. Genuine, authorized. Cf. sterling adj.
a. In mark Lubish, schilling Lubish, denominations belonging to a money of account formerly in extensive mercantile use in North Germany.
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society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [adjective] > money of account > in northern Germany
mark Lubish15..
15.. Aberdeen Reg. (Jam.) xij Lubbis sh, xx merkis Lubis.
1563 Aberdeen Reg. XXV. (Jam.) Aucht daleris & tuelf Lup schilling... To pay x sh. for ilk mark lupis.
c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 88 One thousand lubyes stok fish is ane last.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 177 The Mariners are to haue two shillings lups for euery Last for doing of it.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 415 The said Doller was valued at two markes Lubish, euery marke being sixteene shillings Lubish.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Lubs or Lubesh, a term applied to the money of Lubeck and Hamburgh, as sterling is to English money.
1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1324/2 The mark Lubs, or Lubec mark, used at Hamburgh, is a money of account, equal to 29½ cents.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > genuine, real
soothc888
soothlyc888
soothfastc1175
germanec1384
truea1398
sickera1400
upright?a1500
uncounterfeita1542
righteous1543
legitimate1551
truepennya1556
arrant1570
uncounterfeited1571
real1573
current1578
genuinal1599
unforged1610
unpretended1611
legitime1614
unabusinga1628
Lubish1632
genuine1639
undissembled1651
undissimulate1652
ingenuine1661
infallacious1677
real live1684
unfalsified1688
unmistaken1694
pukka1776
undissimulated1776
unassumed1818
uncynical1824
Simon Pure1834
sure-enough1837
unsimulated1840
straight-out1848
true blue1852
veritable1862
really (and) truly1864
authentic1868
true-metal1868
kosher1896
twenty-four carat1900
honest to goodness1905
echt1916
dinky-di1918
McCoy1928
twenty-two carat1962
right1969
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 271 Although they be bastards & wooden blocks, yet are they better clad, then their lupish legitimate ones.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer
spruce beerc1500
March beer1535
Lubecks beer1608
zythum1608
household beer1616
bottle1622
mumc1623
old beer1626
six1631
four1633
maize beer1663
mum beer1667
vinegar beer1677
wrest-beer1689
nog1693
October1705
October beer1707
ship-beer1707
butt beer1730
starting beer1735
butt1743
peterman1767
seamen's beer1795
chang1800
treacle beer1806
stock beer1826
Iceland beer1828
East India pale ale1835
India pale ale1837
faro1847
she-oak1848
Bass1849
bitter beer1850
bock1856
treble X1856
Burton1861
nettle beer1864
honey beer1867
pivo1873
Lambic1889
steam beer1898
barley-beer1901
gueuze1926
Kriek1936
best1938
rough1946
keg1949
IPA1953
busaa1967
mbege1972
microbrew1985
microbeer1986
yeast-beer-
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F2 Thy horses..shall kneed vp to the knees..in spruce beere & lubeck licour.]
1608 T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece sig. E4 Were it in Lubeckes or double double beere their owne naturall, liquor i'de pledge it.
1639 H. Glapthorne Trag. Albertus Wallenstein iii. iii. sig. Fiiiv I thinke you'r drunk With Lubecks beere or Brunswicks Mum.
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