An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PARIAHS
Noun
pariahs
plural of pariah
Anagrams
• Paharis, raphias
Source: Wiktionary
PARIAH
Pa"ri*ah, n. Etym: [From Tamil paraiyan, pl. paraiyar, one of the low caste, fr. parai a large drum, because they beat the drums at certain festivals.]
1. One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste. Balfour (Cyc. of India).
2. An outcast; one despised by society. Pariah dog (Zoöl.), a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities.
– Pariah kite (Zoöl.), a species of kite (Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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