Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
KITS
Noun
kits
plural of kit
Verb
kits
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kit
Anagrams
• Kist, kist, skit, tisk
Source: Wiktionary
KIT
Kit, v. t. [imp. Kitte.]
Definition: To cut. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Kit, n. Etym: [See Kitten.]
Definition: A kitten. Kit fox (Zoöl.), a small burrowing fox (Vulpes velox), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox.
Kit, n. Etym: [Gf. AS. cytere harp, L. cithara. Cf. Guitar.]
Definition: A small violin. "A dancing master's kit." Grew. Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Dickens.
Kit, m. Etym: [Cf. D. kit a large bottle, OD. kitte beaker, decanter.]
1. A large bottle.
2. A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright.
3. straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
4. A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.
5. A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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