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.
GLAZES
Proper noun
Glazes
plural of Glaze
Anagrams
• gazels
Noun
glazes
plural of glaze
Verb
glazes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glaze
Anagrams
• gazels
Source: Wiktionary
GLAZE
Glaze, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glazing.] Etym: [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass.]
1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.
2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.
3. (Paint.)
Definition: To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.
Glaze, v. i.
Definition: To become glazed of glassy.
Glaze, n.
1. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure.
2. (Cookery)
Definition: Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
3. A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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