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.
FORESHORTENS
Verb
foreshortens
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten
Source: Wiktionary
FORESHORTEN
Fore*short"en, v. t.
1. (Fine Art)
Definition: To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
9 January 2025
PRESENTATION
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
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