inkstone (plural inkstones)
A stone mortar used for the grinding and containment of ink in the East Asian art and calligraphy tradition.
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Source: Wiktionary
Ink"stone", n.
Definition: A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 December 2024
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
