a. Comm. Obs. exc. Hist. Also 6 Lub(b)is, Lubyes, Lup, Lupis, 7 Lupish, Lups, Lubeck(e)s, 9 Lubesh, Lubs. [a. G. lübisch, Du. lubeksch, f. Lübeck, Lubeck.] Of or belonging to Lubeck, a town of northern Germany, formerly a member of the Hanseatic League.
1. In mark Lubish, schilling Lubish, denominations belonging to a money of account formerly in extensive mercantile use in North Germany.
15[?]. Aberdeen Reg. (Jam.). xij Lubbis sh., xx merkis Lubis. Ibid. (1563), XXV. (Jam.). Aucht daleiris & tuelf Lup schilling…. To pay x sh. for ilk mark lupis.
c. 1575. Balfour’s Practicks (1754), 88. One thousand lubyes stok fish is ane last.
1622. Malynes, Anc. Law-Merch., 177. The Mariners are to haue two shillings lups for euery Last for doing of it. Ibid., 415. The said Doller was valued at two markes Lubish, euery marke being sixteene shillings Lubish.
1823. Crabb, Technol. Dict., Lubs or Lubesh, a term applied to the money of Lubeck and Hamburgh, as sterling is to English money.
1858. Homans, Cycl. Comm., 1324/2. The mark Lubs, or Lubec mark, used at Hamburgh, is a money of account, equal to 291/2 cents.
† b. transf. Genuine, authorized. Cf. sterling.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VI. 271. Although they be bastards & wooden blocks, yet are they better clad, then their lupish legitimate ones.
† 2. Lubecks beer: a strong beer brewed at Lubeck.
[1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., E 1 b. Thy horses … shall kneed vp to the knees … in spruce beere and lubeck licour.]
1608. Heywood, Rape of Lucrece, sig. E 4. Were it in Lubeckes or double double beere their owne naturall liquor i’de pledge it.
1639. Glapthorne, Albertus Wallenstein, III. iii. F 3 b. I thinke you’r drunk With Lubecks beere or Brunswicks Mum.
