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.
GIBBOUSLY
Etymology
Adverb
gibbously (comparative more gibbously, superlative most gibbously)
In a gibbous manner.
Source: Wiktionary
GIBBOUS
Gib"bous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose.]
1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. Wiseman.
2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
– Gib"bous*ly, adv.
– Gib"bous*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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