There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
FRAYINGS
Noun
frayings
plural of fraying
Source: Wiktionary
FRAYING
Fray"ing, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B. Jonson.
FRAY
Fray, n. Etym: [Abbreviated from affray.]
Definition: Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak.
Fray, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fraying.] Etym: [See 1st Fray, and cf. Affray.]
Definition: To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. I. Taylor. What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed Spenser.
Fray, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. fraier. See Defray, v. t.]
Definition: To bear the expense of; to defray. [Obs.] The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied. Massinger.
Fray, v. t. Etym: [OF. freier, fraier, froier, to rub. L. fricare; cf. friare to crumble, E. friable; perh. akin to Gr. gh to rub, scratch. Cf. Friction.]
Definition: To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.
Fray, v. i.
1. To rub. We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed. Sir W. Scott.
2. To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly. A suit of frayed magnificience. tennyson.
Fray, n.
Definition: A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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