Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
AGUE
ague
(noun) a fit of shivering or shaking
ague, chills and fever
(noun) successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ague (countable and uncountable, plural agues)
(obsolete) An acute fever.
(pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever
A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
(obsolete) Malaria.
Usage notes
The pronunciation /ˈeɪɡ/ is a common pronunciation by people to whom this is a book word (a word one learns by reading and has never heard spoken). /ˈeɪ.ɡju/ is the standard pronunciation.
Verb
ague (third-person singular simple present agues, present participle aguing, simple past and past participle agued)
(transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
Anagrams
• gaue
Source: Wiktionary
A"gue, n. Etym: [OE. agu, ague, OF. agu, F. aigu, sharp, OF. fem. ague, LL. (febris) acuta, a sharp, acute fever, fr. L. acutus sharp. See Acute.]
1. An acute fever. [Obs.] "Brenning agues." P. Plowman.
2. (Med.)
Definition: An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.
4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. Dryden. Ague cake, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague.
– Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague.
– Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak.
– Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay.
– Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]
A"gue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agued.]
Definition: To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. Heywood.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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