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.
POSED
posed
(adjective) arranged for pictorial purposes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
posed
simple past tense and past participle of pose
Adjective
posed
(obsolete) Firm; determined; fixed.
Anagrams
• deops, depos, dopes, op-eds, pedos, podes
Source: Wiktionary
Posed, a.
Definition: Firm; determined; fixed. "A most posed . . . and grave behavior." [Obs.] Urquhart.
POSE
Po`sé", a. Etym: [F., placed, posed.] (Her.)
Definition: Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
Pose, n. Etym: [AS. gepose; of uncertain origin; cf. W. pas a cough, Skr. kas to cough, and E. wheeze.]
Definition: A cold in the head; catarrh. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pose, n. Etym: [F. pose, fr. poser. See Pose, v. t.]
Definition: The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.
Pose, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Posed; p. pr. & vb. n. Posing.] Etym: [F. poser to place, to put, L. pausare to pause, in LL. also, to place, put, fr. L. pausa a pause, Gr. few. In compounds, this word appears corresponding to L. ponere to put, place, the substitution in French having been probably due to confusion of this word with L. positio position, fr. ponere. See Few, and cf. Appose, Dispose, Oppose, Pause, Repose, Position.]
Definition: To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.
Pose, v. i.
Definition: To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude. He . . . posed before her as a hero. Thackeray.
Pose, v. t. Etym: [Shortened from appose, for oppose. See 2d Appose, Oppose.]
1. To interrogate; to question. [Obs.] "She . . . posed him and sifted him." Bacon.
2. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand. A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him. Barrow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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