Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
mounding
present participle of mound
mounding (plural moundings)
A mound of material.
• Mundingo
Source: Wiktionary
Mound, n. Etym: [F. monde the world, L. mundus. See Mundane.]
Definition: A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
Mound, n. Etym: [OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. mund protection, hand; akin to OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and prob. to L. manus. See Manual.]
Definition: An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound maker (below).
– Mound builders (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that occupied the country when discovered by Europeans.
– Mound maker (Zoöl.), any one of the megapodes.
– Shell mound, a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.
Mound, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounding.]
Definition: To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 April 2025
(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.