haud

/ hɔːd, hʌd /

verb

1. a Scot word for hold 1

Example Sentences

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

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“I care nought about the truth or not All I say is, Haud yer tongue.”

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

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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.

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

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