Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
GLOBULARS
Noun
globulars
plural of globular
Source: Wiktionary
GLOBULAR
Glob"u*lar, a. Etym: [Cf. F. globulaire.]
Definition: Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection.
– Globular projection (Map Projection), a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane parallel to the base of the hemisphere, the point of sight being taken in the axis produced beyond the surface of the opposite hemisphere a distance equal to the radius of the sphere into the sine of 45º.
– Globular sailing, sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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