The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
Be*saiel", Be*saile", Be*sayle" (, n. Etym: [OF. beseel, F. bisaïeul, fr. L. bis twice + LL. avolus, dim. of L. avus grandfather.]
1. A great-grandfather. [Obs.]
2. (Law)
Definition: A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 April 2025
(noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.