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.
GROINS
Noun
groins
plural of groin
Anagrams
• Gorins, O-rings, girons, grison, rosing, signor, soring
Source: Wiktionary
GROIN
Groin, n. Etym: [F. groin, fr. grogner to grunt, L. grunnire.]
Definition: The snout of a swine. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Groin, v. i. Etym: [F. grogner to grunt, grumble.]
Definition: To grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bears that groined coatinually. Spenser.
Groin, n. Etym: [Icel. grein distinction, division, branch; akin to Sw. gren, branch, space between the legs, Icel. greina to distinguish, divide, Sw. grena to branch, straddle. Cf. Grain a branch.]
1. (Anat.)
Definition: The line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen.
2. (Arch.)
Definition: The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.
3. (Math.)
Definition: The surface formed by two such vaults.
4. A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle. [Eng.] Weale.
Groin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Groined; p. pr. & vb. n. Groining.] (Arch.)
Definition: To fashion into groins; to build with groins. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Emerson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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