FROSTBIT

Verb

frostbit

simple past tense of frostbite

Source: Wiktionary


FROSTBITE

Frost"bite, n.

Definition: The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose. Kane.

Frost`bite", v. t.

Definition: To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost. My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves. Pepys.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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