An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BOONS
Noun
boons
plural of boon
Anagrams
• Bonos, Bosno-, NOBOs, boson, noobs
Source: Wiktionary
BOON
Boon, n. Etym: [OE. bone, boin, a petition, fr. Icel. b; akin to Sw. & Dan. b, AS. b, and perh. to E. ban; but influenced by F. bon good, fr. L. bonus. Ban, Bounty.]
1. A prayer or petition. [Obs.] For which to God he made so many an idle boon. Spenser.
2. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present. Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above. James i. 17 (Rev. Ver. ).
Boon, a. Etym: [F. bon. See Boon, n.]
1. Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage. [Obs.]
2. Kind; bountiful; benign. Which . . . Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.
3. Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. A boon companion, loving his bottle. Arbuthnot.
Boon, n. Etym: [Scot. boon, bune, been, Gael. & Ir. bunach coarse tow, fr. bun root, stubble.]
Definition: The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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