Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
MARBLES
marbles
(noun) a children’s game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)
wits, marbles
(noun) the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception; “he used his wits to get ahead”; “I was scared out of my wits”; “he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
marbles pl (plural only)
Any of several children's games played with small glass balls.
(figurative, usually, in a limited number of expressions) Sanity.
Synonym: Thesaurus:sanity
(motor racing) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
Noun
marbles
plural of marble
Verb
marbles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marble
Anagrams
• Amblers, amblers, blamers, lambers, rambles
Proper noun
Marbles
plural of Marble
Anagrams
• Amblers, amblers, blamers, lambers, rambles
Source: Wiktionary
MARBLE
Mar"ble, n. Etym: [OE. marbel, marbre, F. marbre, L. marmor, fr. Gr. Marmoreal.]
1. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
Note: Breccia marble consists of limestone fragments cemented together.
– Ruin marble, when polished, shows forms resembling ruins, due to disseminated iron oxide.
– Shell marble contains fossil shells.
– Statuary marble is a pure, white, fine-grained kind, including Parian (from Paros) and Carrara marble. If coarsely granular it is called saccharoidal.
2. A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
3. A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
Note: Marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds; when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means, hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as, marble-breasted, marble- faced, marble-hearted.
Mar"ble, a.
1. Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.
2. Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.
Mar"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Marbling.] Etym: [Cf. F. marbrer. See Marble, n.]
Definition: To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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STORY
(noun) a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; “he writes stories for the magazines”
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