bere (uncountable)
(chiefly, Scotland) Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.
• Beer, Bree, Eber, Reeb, be-er, beer, bree, eber, reeb
Source: Wiktionary
Bear, Bere, n. Etym: [AS. bere. See Barley.] (Bot.)
Definition: Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
Bere
Definition: , v. t. Etym: [Cf. OIcel. berja to strike.] To pierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Bere
Definition: ,n.See Bear, barley. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 July 2024
(adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; “was boorish and insensitive”; “the loutish manners of a bully”; “her stupid oafish husband”; “aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
