Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
DRENCH
drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
(verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; “souse water on his hot face”
imbrue, drench
(verb) permeate or impregnate; “The war drenched the country in blood”
drench
(verb) force to drink
swamp, drench
(verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; “The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
drench (plural drenches)
A draught administered to an animal.
(obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
Verb
drench (third-person singular simple present drenches, present participle drenching, simple past and past participle drenched)
To soak, to make very wet.
To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
Etymology 2
Noun
drench (plural drenches)
(obsolete, UK) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Source: Wiktionary
Drench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Drenching.] Etym: [AS. drencan to give to drink, to drench, the causal of drincan to drink; akin to D. drenken, Sw. dränka, G. tränken. See Drink.]
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench.
2. To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse. Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; Their moisture has already drenched the plain. Dryden.
Drench, n. Etym: [AS. drenc. See Drench, v. t.]
Definition: A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging. "A drench of wine." Dryden. Give my roan horse a drench. Shak.
Drench, n. Etym: [AS. dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icel. drengr.] (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.] Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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