Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
DROUGHTS
Noun
droughts
plural of drought
Source: Wiktionary
DROUGHT
Drought, n. Etym: [OE. droght, drougth, dru, AS. druga, from drugian to dry. See Dry, and cf. Drouth, which shows the original final sound.]
1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden.
2. Thirst; want of drink. Johnson.
3. Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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