In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
Or`tho*pin"a*coid, n. Etym: [Ortho- + pinacoid.] (Crystallog.)
Definition: A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 July 2024
(noun) fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.