In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HYDRACHNID
Hy*drach"nid, n. Etym: [Hydr- + arachnid.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: An aquatic mite of the genus Hydrachna. The hydrachids, while young, are parasitic on fresh-water mussels.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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