Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
HONING
Verb
honing
present participle of hone
Noun
honing (plural honings)
The process by which something is honed.
Source: Wiktionary
HONE
Hone, v. i. Etym: [Etymology uncertain. sq. root37.]
Definition: To pine; to lament; to long. Lamb.
Hone, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. h a knob.]
Definition: A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Hone, n. Etym: [AS. han; akin to Icel. hein, OSw. hen; cf. Skr. ç\'be, also ç\'d3, çi, to sharpen, and E. cone. sq. root38, 228.]
Definition: A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone. Tusser. Hone slateSee Polishing slate.
– Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.
Hone, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Honed; p]. pr. & vb. n. Honing.]
Definition: To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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