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.
FIREDRAKE
dragon, firedrake
(noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
firedrake (plural firedrakes)
A fire-breathing dragon.
A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket
A kind of firework
(figurative, poetic) A worker at a furnace or fire
Source: Wiktionary
Fire"drake`, n. Etym: [AS. f; f fire + draca a dragon. See Fire, and Drake a dragon.] [Obs.]
1. A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl.
2. A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.
3. A worker at a furnace or fire. B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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