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.
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ink
(noun) dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods
ink
(noun) a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing
ink
(verb) fill with ink; “ink a pen”
ink
(verb) mark, coat, cover, or stain with ink; “he inked his finger”
ink
(verb) append one’s signature to; “They inked the contract”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ink (usually uncountable, plural inks)
A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.
(countable) A particular type, color or container of this fluid.
The black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy.
(slang, uncountable) Publicity.
Synonyms: ballyhoo, flak, hoopla, hype, plug, spotlight
(slang, uncountable) Tattoo work.
Synonym: paint
(slang) Cheap red wine.
Verb
ink (third-person singular simple present inks, present participle inking, simple past and past participle inked)
(transitive) To apply ink to; to cover or smear with ink.
(transitive) To sign (a contract or similar document).
(transitive) To apply a tattoo to (someone).
(intransitive, of a squid or octopus) to eject ink (sense 3)
Synonyms
• (sign): endorse, initial, inscribe, subscribe
Anagrams
• -kin, -kin-, -nik, Kin, Nik, k'in, kin
Source: Wiktionary
Ink, n. (Mach.)
Definition: The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
Ink, n. Etym: [OE. enke, inke, OF. enque, F. encre, L. encaustum the purple red ink with which the Roman emperors signed their edicts, Gr. Encaustic, Caustic.]
1. A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing. Make there a prick with ink. Chaucer. Deformed monsters, foul and black as ink. Spenser.
2. A pigment. See India ink, under India.
Note: Ordinarily, black ink is made from nutgalls and a solution of some salt of iron, and consists essentially of a tannate or gallate of iron; sometimes indigo sulphate, or other coloring matter,is added. Other black inks contain potassium chromate, and extract of logwood, salts of vanadium, etc. Blue ink is usually a solution of Prussian blue. Red ink was formerly made from carmine (cochineal), Brazil wood, etc., but potassium eosin is now used. Also red, blue, violet, and yellow inks are largely made from aniline dyes. Indelible ink is usually a weak solution of silver nitrate, but carbon in the form of lampblack or India ink, salts of molybdenum, vanadium, etc., are also used. Sympathetic inks may be made of milk, salts of cobalt, etc. See Sympathetic ink (below). Copying ink, a peculiar ink used for writings of which copies by impression are to be taken.
– Ink bag (Zoöl.), an ink sac.
– Ink berry. (Bot.) (a) A shrub of the Holly family (Ilex glabra), found in sandy grounds along the coast from New England to Florida, and producing a small black berry. (b) The West Indian indigo berry. See Indigo.
– Ink plant (Bot.), a New Zealand shrub (Coriaria thumifolia), the berries of which uield a juice which forms an ink.
– Ink powder, a powder from which ink is made by solution.
– Ink sac (Zoöl.), an organ, found in most cephalopods, containing an inky fluid which can be ejected from a duct opening at the base of the siphon. The fluid serves to cloud the water, and enable these animals to escape from their enemies. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.
– Printer's ink, or Printing ink. See under Printing.
– Sympathetic ink, a writing fluid of such a nature that what is written remains invisible till the action of a reagent on the characters makes it visible.
Ink, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inked (nkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Inking.]
Definition: To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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