The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
MUMMED
MUM
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
mummed
simple past tense and past participle of mum
simple past tense and past participle of mumm
Source: Wiktionary
MUM
Mum, a. Etym: [Of imitative origin. Cf. Mumble.]
Definition: Silent; not speaking. Thackeray. The citizens are mum, and speak not a word. Shak.
Mum, interj.
Definition: Be silent! Hush! Mum, then, and no more. Shak.
Mum, n.
Definition: Silence. [R.] Hudibras.
Mum, n. Etym: [G. mummere, fr. Christian Mumme, who first brewed it in 1492.]
Definition: A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany. Addison. The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum. Pope.
MUMM
Mumm, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mumming.] Etym: [D. mimmen to mask, mom a mask; akin to G. mumme disguise; prob. of imitative origin, and akin to E. mum, mumble, in allusion to the indistinctness of speech occasioned by talking from behind a mask. Cf. Mumble, Mummery.]
Definition: To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask. With mumming and with masking all around. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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