Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
MOONEYE
Etymology
Noun
mooneye (plural mooneyes)
A primitive ray-finned fish of the family Hiodontidae.
Source: Wiktionary
Moon"-eye`, n.
1. A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters. (b) The cisco.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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