liards
plural of liard
• LIDARs, drails, lairds, larids, lidars
Source: Wiktionary
Li"ard, a. Etym: [OF. liart, LL. liardus gray, dappie.]
Definition: Gray. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Note: Used by Chaucer as an epithet of a gray or dapple gray horse. Also used as a name for such a horse.
Liard, n. Etym: [F.]
Definition: A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 June 2025
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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.
