haud

British  

/ hɔːd, hʌd /

verb

1. a Scot word for hold 1

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Example Sentences

Danny Alderslowe, of Haud the Bus, described the escalating cost of bus travel as "tragic".

From BBC

Verum fideles si videri ipsi cupiunt christiani, dubitare haud debent contra aquam remigare.”

From Economist

The first friar cries: Friar Laurence, my lord; Now holy water help us: Some witch or some devil is sent to delude us: Haud credo, Laurentius, That thou shouldst be pen’d thus In the press of a nun: We are all undone, And brought to discredence, If thou be Friar Laurence.

From Project Gutenberg

I may add the well-known sentiment which Virgil puts in the mouth of Dido: “Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.”

From Project Gutenberg

"Ipsa vero hypothesis nostra quominus scrupulum moveat, nihil aliud sibi velle ostendemus, quam, quod nemo unquam negavit, gravia nempe sursum non ferri.—Et sane, si hac eadem uti scirent novorum operum machinatores, qui motum perpetuum irrito conatu moliuntur, facile suos ipsi errores deprehenderent, intelligerentque rem eam mechanica ratione haud quaquam possibilem esse."

From Project Gutenberg