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.
PALLING
PAL
pal, pal up, chum up
(verb) become friends; act friendly towards
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
palling
present participle of pall
Etymology 2
Verb
palling
present participle of pal
Anagrams
• lapling
Source: Wiktionary
PAL
Pal, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate. [Slang]
PALL
Pall, n.
Definition: Same as Pawl.
Pall, n. Etym: [OE. pal, AS. pæl, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.]
1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.
2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
3. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: Same as Pallium. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.
4. (Her.)
Definition: A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. Warriors carry the warrior's pall. Tennyson.
6. (Eccl.)
Definition: A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
Pall, v. t.
Definition: To cloak. [R.] Shak
Pall, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Palled; p. pr. & vb. n. Palling.] Etym: [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. pâlir to grow pale. Cf. Appall, Pale, a.]
Definition: To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisin.
Pall, v. t.
1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury.
2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
Pall, n.
Definition: Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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