Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
COMFITS
Noun
comfits
plural of comfit
Anagrams
• scomfit
Source: Wiktionary
COMFIT
Com"fit, n. Etym: [F. confit, prop. a p. p., fr. confire to preserve, pickle, fr. L. conficere to prepare; con- + facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Confect.]
Definition: A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
Com"fit, v. t.
Definition: To preserve dry with sugar. The fruit which does so quickly waste, . . . Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last. Cowley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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