There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
POLICES
Verb
polices
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of police
Source: Wiktionary
POLICE
Po*lice", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. politia the condition of a state, government, administration, Gr. pur, puri. Cf. Policy polity, Polity.]
1. A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
2. That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
3. The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
4. (Mil.)
Definition: Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
5. The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state Police commissioner, a civil officer, usually one of a board, commissioned to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of the police.
– Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman.
– Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before it by the police.
– Police inspector, an officer of police ranking next below a superintendent.
– Police jury, a body of officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. Bouvier.
– Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court.
– Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of the community, of which a police court may have final jurisdiction.
– Police station, the headquarters of the police, or of a section of them; the place where the police assemble for orders, and to which they take arrested persons.
Po*lice", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Policed; p. pr. & vb. n. Policing.]
1. To keep in order by police.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: To make clean; as, to police a camp.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
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