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ALIUNDE(law)

mug(1) (iou) and ALIUNDE (law)


mug(1) (iou)



mug noun1. E16.
[Prob. of Scandinavian origin (cf. Norwegian mugge, Swedish mugg pitcher with a handle), ult. origin unkn. See also MUG noun3.]
A (large) earthenware vessel or bowl; a pot, a jug, a ewer. Scot. & north. E16.
A drinking-vessel, usu. cylindrical and with a handle and used without a saucer. M17.
J. Glassco The tea came in thick ironstone mugs. M. M. R. Khan A mug with a handle..for morning coffee.
b. A mug with the drink it contains; the contents of a mug; a mugful. L17.
J. Howker He hadn't touched the mug of tea I'd made for him.
A kind of cooling drink. Now rare or obsolete. E19.
Comb.: mug-house (a) arch. a public house; mug-house club (Hist.), any of various political clubs of Hanoverian sympathies meeting at public houses; (b) dial. a pottery.
mugful noun the contents of a mug; as much as a mug will hold: M19.

ALIUNDE (law)


ALIUNDE. From another place; evidence given aliunde, as, when a willcontains an ambiguity, in some cases, in order to ascertain the meaning ofcontains an ambiguity, in some cases, in order to ascertain the meaning ofthe testator, evidence aliunde will be received.the testator, evidence aliunde will be received.