Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
ACORNS
Noun
acorns
plural of acorn
Anagrams
• Carson, Rascon, acrons, carons, corans, narcos, racons
Source: Wiktionary
ACORN
A"corn, n. Etym: [AS. æcern, fr. æcer field, acre; akin to D. aker acorn, Ger. ecker, Icel. akarn, Dan. agern, Goth. akran fruit, akrs field; -- orig. fruit of the field. See Acre.]
1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: See Acorn-shell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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