In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ALECITHAL
Etymology
Adjective
alecithal (not comparable)
(biology, of an ovum) Tending to segment uniformly, and having little or no yolk embedded in the protoplasm.
Source: Wiktionary
A*lec"i*thal, a. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Definition: Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. Balfour.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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