haud
Britishverb
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About the same time the British Medical Journal said, after calling attention to the distinguished contemporaries with whom Corrigan had been associated, that he was "haud minimus inter magnos--not the least among the great ones."
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Gudesake, lassie, haud your tongue, and dinna affront baith yoursell and me.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
But, oh, my boy! in ocht that may in the future distress ye dinna leave Betty oot, an' dinna forget that her he'rt is big eneuch to haud your sorrows as weel as her ain.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
O haud your tongue, my brother John; Ye wisna what ye say; For I hae lued that bonny face55 This mony a year and day.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
Gin ye want to look into his een, I'se haud up the lids myself.'
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
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