The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
BISMER
Bi*smare", Bi*smer", n. Etym: [AS. bismer.]
Definition: Shame; abuse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Bis"mer, n.
1. A rule steelyard. [Scot.]
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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