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.
KINS
Noun
kins
plural of kin
Anagrams
• Sink, inks, sink, skin
Source: Wiktionary
KIN
kin (. Etym: [Of Low German origin; cf. G. -chen, LG.
– ken.]
Definition: A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.
Kin, n. (Mus.)
Definition: A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. Riemann.
Kin, n. Etym: [OE. kin, cun, AS. cynn kin, kind, race, people; akin to cennan to beget, D. kunne sex, OS. & OHG. kunni kin, race, Icel. kyn, Goth. kuni, G. & D. kind a child, L. genus kind, race, L. gignere to beget, Gr. jan to beget. Kind, King, Gender kind, Nation.]
1. Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
2. Relatives; persons of the same family or race. The father, mother, and the kinbeside. Dryden. You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons. Bacon.
Kin, a.
Definition: Of the same nature or kind; kinder. "Kin to the king." Shak.
-kin (-kin). [Of Low German origin; cf. G. -chen, LG. -- ken.]
Definition: A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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