An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DORMANTS
Noun
dormants
plural of dormant
Anagrams
• mordants
Source: Wiktionary
DORMANT
Dor"mant, a. Etym: [F., p. pr. of dormir to sleep, from L. dormire; cf. Gr. dra, OSlav. dr.]
1. Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles. It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke.
2. (Her.)
Definition: In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; -- called also sleeping or silent partner.
– Dormant window (Arch.), a dormer window. See Dormer.
– Table dormant, a stationary table. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dor"mant, n. Etym: [See Dormant, a.] (Arch.)
Definition: A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep." Arch. Pub. Soc.
– Called also dormant tree, dorman tree, dormond, and dormer. Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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