denting
present participle of dent
• 'tending, tending
Source: Wiktionary
Dent, n. Etym: [A variant of Dint.]
1. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] "That dent of thunder." Chaucer.
2. A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation. A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter. De Quincey.
Dent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dented; p. pr. & vb. n. Denting.]
Definition: To make a dent upon; to indent. The houses dented with bullets. Macaulay.
Dent, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth. See Tooth.] (Mach.)
Definition: A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
