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.
MINTS
Noun
mints
plural of mint
Verb
mints
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mint
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
MINT
Mint, n. Etym: [AS. minte, fr. L. mentha, Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.
Note: Corn mint is Mentha arvensis.
– Horsemint is M. sylvestris, and in the United States Monarda punctata, which differs from the true mints in several respects.
– Mountain mint is any species of the related genus Pycnanthemum, common in North America.
– Peppermint is M. piperita.
– Spearmint is M. viridis.
– Water mint is M. aquatica. Mint camphor. (Chem.) See Menthol.
– Mint julep. See Julep.
– Mint sauce, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.
Mint, n. Etym: [AS. mynet money, coin, fr. L. moneta the mint, coined money, fr. Moneta, a surname of Juno, in whose at Rome money was coined; akin to monere to warn, admonish, AS. manian, and to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Money, Monition.]
1. A place where money is coined by public authority.
2. Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. A mint of phrases in his brain. Shak.
Mint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Minted; p. pr. & vb. n. Minting.] Etym: [AS. mynetian.]
1. To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. Titles... of such natures as may be easily minted. Bacon. Minting mill, a coining press.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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