Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
POLISHINGS
Noun
polishings
plural of polishing
Source: Wiktionary
POLISHING
Pol"ish*ing,
Definition: a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries.
– Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate.
– Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones.
– Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface.
POLISH
Pol"ish, a. Etym: [From Pole a Polander.]
Definition: Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
– n.
Definition: The language of the Poles.
Pol"ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polished; p. pr. & vb. n. Polishing.] Etym: [F. polir, L. polire. Cf. Polite, -ish]
1. To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
2. Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners. Milton. To polish off, to finish completely, as an adversary. [Slang] W. H. Russell.
Pol"ish, v. i.
Definition: To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well. Bacon.
Pol"ish, n.
1. A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster. Another prism of clearer glass and better polish. Sir I. Newton.
2. Anything used to produce a gloss.
3. Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners. This Roman polish and this smooth behavior. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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