Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
berlins
plural of berlin
• Breslin
Source: Wiktionary
Ber"lin, n. Etym: [The capital of Prussia]
1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
2. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure.
– Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure.
– Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue.
– Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.
– Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work.
– Berlin work, worsted embroidery.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 February 2025
(noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; “he wrote the manual on car care”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.