Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
COMPOSTS
Verb
composts
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compost
Source: Wiktionary
COMPOST
Com"post, n.Etym: [OF. compost, fr. L. compositus, p. p. See Composite.]
1. A mixture; a compound. [R.] A sad compost of more bitter than sweet. Hammond.
2. (Agric.)
Definition: A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap. And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. Shak.
Com"post, v. t.
1. To manure with compost.
2. To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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