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.
FESTER
fester, suppurating sore
(noun) a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus
fester, maturate, suppurate
(verb) ripen and generate pus; “her wounds are festering”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fester (plural festers)
(pathology, obsolete) A fistula.
(pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.
Verb
fester (third-person singular simple present festers, present participle festering, simple past and past participle festered)
(intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
(intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
(transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.
Anagrams
• freest, freets
Source: Wiktionary
Fes"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Festered; p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.] Etym: [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n.]
1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.
2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
Fes`ter, v. t.
Definition: To cause to fester or rankle. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast. Marston.
Fes"ter, n. Etym: [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula.]
1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.
2. A festering or rankling. The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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