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.
DUSKLY
Etymology
Adverb
duskly (comparative more duskly, superlative most duskly)
In a dark or dusky manner.
Source: Wiktionary
DUSK
Dusk, a. Etym: [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower.
Definition: Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.
Dusk, n.
1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
2. A darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden.
Dusk, v. t.
Definition: To make dusk. [Archaic] After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. Holland.
Dusk, v. i.
Definition: To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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