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.
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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