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.
LORN
Etymology
Adjective
lorn (comparative more lorn, superlative most lorn)
(obsolete) Doomed; lost.
(archaic) Abandoned, forlorn, lonely.
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Source: Wiktionary
Lorn, a. Etym: [Strong p. p. of Lose. See Lose, Forlorn.]
1. Lost; undone; ruined. [Archaic] If thou readest, thou art lorn. Sir W. Scott.
2. Forsaken; abandoned; solitary; bereft; as, a lone, lorn woman.
LEESE
Leese, v. t. Etym: [See Lose.]
Definition: To lose. [Obs.] They would rather leese their friend than their jest. Lord Burleigh.
Leese, v. t. Etym: [Cf. f. léser, L.laesus, p. p. of laedere.]
Definition: To hurt. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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