In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
HELMLESS
Etymology
Adjective
helmless (not comparable)
Without a helm (steering apparatus of a ship).
Anagrams
• Meshells
Source: Wiktionary
Helm"less, a.
1. Destitute of a helmet.
2. Without a helm or rudder. Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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