Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
CYCLOIDS
Noun
cycloids
plural of cycloid
Source: Wiktionary
CYCLOID
Cy"cloid (s"kloid), n. Etym: [Cyclo- + -oid: cf. F. cycloïde.] (Geom.)
Definition: A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.
Note: The common cycloid is the curve described when the generating point (p) is on the circumference of the generating circle; the curtate cycloid, when that point lies without the circumference; the prolate or inflected cycloid, when the generating point (p) lies within that circumference.
Cy"cloid, a. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei. Cycloid scale (Zoöl.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.
Cy"cloid, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the Cycloidei.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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