Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
CUPELED
Verb
cupeled
simple past tense and past participle of cupel
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
CUPEL
Cu"pel (k"pl), n. Etym: [LL. cupella cup (cf. L. cupella, small cask, dim. of cupa) : cf. F. coupelle. See Cup, and cf. Coblet.]
Definition: A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [Written also coppel.] Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.
Cu*pel" (k-pl"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cupelled (-pld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupelling.]
Definition: To refine by means of a cupel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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