LEGERITY

agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness

(noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

legerity (usually uncountable, plural legerities)

alert quickness of mind or body

Source: Wiktionary


Le*ger"i*ty, n. Etym: [F. légèreté. See 3d Leger.]

Definition: Lightness; nimbleness [Archaic] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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11 January 2025

COWBERRY

(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries


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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.

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