An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
INGRAINS
Verb
ingrains
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingrain
Anagrams
• Ingrians, airnings, rainings
Source: Wiktionary
INGRAIN
In"grain`, a. Etym: [Pref. in- in + grain kermes. See Engrain, Grain.]
1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. [Obs.]
2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet.
– Triple ingrain carpet, a three-ply carpet.
In"grain`, n.
Definition: An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
In"grain`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ingrained; p. pr. & vb. n. Ingraining.] Etym: [Written also engrain.]
1. To dye with or in grain or kermes.
2. To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.
3. To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply. Our fields ingrained with blood. Daniel. Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all. Helps.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DISPERSION
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