The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
HEARSES
Noun
hearses
plural of hearse
Verb
hearses
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearse
Anagrams
• earshes, sharees
Source: Wiktionary
HEARSE
Hearse, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] Wright.
Hearse, n. Etym: [See Herse.]
1. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.
2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [Archaic] "Underneath this marble hearse." B. Johnson. Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. Fairfax Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. Longfellow.
3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. [Obs.] Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse. Shak.
4. A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
Hearse, v. t.
Definition: To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] "Would she were hearsed at my foot." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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