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.
LIEN
spleen, lien
(noun) a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
lien
(noun) the right to take another’s property if an obligation is not discharged
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
lien (plural liens)
(obsolete) A tendon.
(legal) A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.
Etymology 2
Verb
lien
(Bible, archaic) Alternative form of lain
Etymology 3
Noun
lien (plural lienes)
(uncommon, possibly, obsolete) The spleen.
Anagrams
• LEIN, LINE, Line, Neil, Niel, Nile, line
Source: Wiktionary
Li"en, obs. p. p.
Definition: of Lie. See lain. Ps. lxviii. 13.
Lien, n. Etym: [F. lien band, bond, tie, fr. L. ligamen, fr. ligare to bind. Cf. League a union, Leam a string, Leamer, Ligament.] (Law)
Definition: A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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AWRY
(adjective) not functioning properly; “something is amiss”; “has gone completely haywire”; “something is wrong with the engine”
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