Sc. Obs. Also 8 usquæ, husque, usky (cf. WHISKY sb.1). Short for next.
1728. Ramsay, Friends in Ireland, 10. Drinking roundly rum and claret, Ale and usquæ.
c. 1730. Burt, Lett. N. Scotl. (1754), I. 188. This drink [common ale] is of itself apt to give a Diarrhea, and therefore … they interlace it with Brandy or Usky.
1739. A. Nicol, Poems, 76. Good ale and Usque ga’d about In Healths.
attrib. c. 1730. Burt, Lett. N. Scotl. (1754), II. 83. My Merchants … mov’d the Usky Vessels before ’em. Ibid., 84. The Usky Men were my Companions.
