In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
DISC
disk, disc
(noun) a flat circular plate
disk, disc, saucer
(noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; “the moon’s disk hung in a cloudless sky”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
disc (plural discs)
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
(anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
Something resembling a disc.
A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
(botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
(disc golf, ultimate frisbee) A Frisbee.
Usage notes
See usage notes at the disk entry.
Verb
disc (third-person singular simple present discs, present participle discing, simple past and past participle disced)
(agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.
Anagrams
• CDIs, CIDs, DCIS, DCIs, SCID
Source: Wiktionary
Disc, n. Etym: [See Disk, Dish.]
Definition: A flat round plate; (Biol.)
Definition: a circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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