usquebaugh

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us·que·baugh

 (ŭs′kwĭ-bô′, -bä′)
n. Irish & Scots
Whiskey.

[Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha and Irish Gaelic uisce beatha, water of life, whiskey (translation of Medieval Latin aqua vītae) : Old Irish uisce, water; see wed- in Indo-European roots + Old Irish bethad, genitive of bethu, life; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.]
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usquebaugh

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usquabae

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usque

n
1. (Brewing) Irish the former name for whiskey
2. (Brewing) Scot the former name for whisky
3. (Brewing) an Irish liqueur flavoured with coriander
[C16: from Irish Gaelic uisce beathadh or Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha water of life]
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us•que•baugh

(ˈʌs kwɪˌbɔ, -ˌbɑ)

n.
(in Scotland and Ireland) whiskey.
[1575–85; < Irish uisce beatha or Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha]
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True friends will prove their friends and make use of them, as a poet has said, usque ad aras; whereby he meant that they will not make use of their friendship in things that are contrary to God's will.
" Salvum me fac, Deus, quoniam intraverunt aquoe usque ad animam meam .
Euler, Evolutio formulae integralis f [partial derivative]x(1/1 - x + 1/lX) a termino x = 0 usque ad x = 1 extensae, Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae 4 (1789), 3 16.
Em realidade, Saraiva demonstrou entusiasmo pela possibilidade de um Fernao Mendes Pinto cristao-novo ao afirmar que se tratava de uma "hipotese convidativa que se harmoniza com o espirito do nosso autor, com a sua impressionante ausencia de preconceitos nacionais, com a abundancia caudalosa do seu estilo, o seu gosto da decoracao oriental, as lagrimas (como Samuel Usque), e ate com seu acesso de misticismo que o assaltou nas vesperas do seu regresso a Patria" (359).
quod ille gallinam aut columbam se sectari aut simiam dicat, disperiistis ni usque ad mortem male mulcassitis.
A soeculo VII usque od annum MCCLX (dos volumenes publicados en Lucca en 2009 y 2013, en colaboracion con G.
Sometimes word games embedded in the work's text identified the composer or dedicatee or both, as in Antoine de Busnoys's (or Busnois's) motet for Saint Anthony, Anthoni usque limina ...
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
(38) <<Vicarius auxiliaras vero qui in regimine Praelatum substituit usque ad novum ordinarium Congressum perdurat.