In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
LUPINES
Noun
lupines
plural of lupine
Anagrams
• Lupiens, line ups, line-ups, lines up, lineups, pinules, spinule, unpiles, up lines, up-lines, uplines
Source: Wiktionary
LUPINE
Lu"pine, n. Etym: [L. lupinus, lupinum, apparently fr. lupinus belonging to a wolf, fr. lupus a wolf; perh. so called because it was supposed to exhaust the soil: cf. F. lupin. Cf. Wolf.] (Bot.)
Definition: A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There are many species in California.
Lu"pine, a. Etym: [See Lupine, n.]
Definition: Wolfish; ravenous. Gauden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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