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.
FLUTIST
flutist, flautist, flute player
(noun) someone who plays the flute
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
flutist (plural flutists)
Alternative form of flautist
Anagrams
• Fluitts
Source: Wiktionary
Flut"ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. flûtiste.]
Definition: A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby.
2. To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.
3. To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result. No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit, That once so fluttered, and that once so writ. Pope.
4. To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty. Long we fluttered on the wings of doubtful success. Howell. His thoughts are very fluttering and wandering. I. Watts.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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