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.
gloomings
plural of glooming
Source: Wiktionary
Gloom"ing, n. Etym: [Cf. Gloaming.]
Definition: Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.
Gloom (gloom), n. Etym: [AS. glom twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]
1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .
3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.
4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
Syn.
– Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.
Gloom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]
1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.
Gloom, v. t.
1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.
2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
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.