Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
freshening
present participle of freshen
freshening (plural freshenings)
The act by which something is freshened.
Source: Wiktionary
Fresh"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freshened; p. pr. & vb. n. Freshening]
1. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
2. To refresh; to revive. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it.
– To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part.
– To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Fresh"en, v. i.
1. To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
2. To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 November 2024
(noun) stout-bodied broad-winged moth with conspicuously striped or spotted wings; larvae are hairy caterpillars
Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.