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.
POSSE
posse, posse comitatus
(noun) a temporary police force
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
posse (plural posses)
A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd. [from 17th c.]
(now, historical, in later use chiefly, US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement. [from 17th c.]
Coordinate term: vigilante
(US) A search party.
(US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang. [from 20th c.]
(colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends. [from 20th c.]
Anagrams
• ESOPs, pesos, poses, s'pose, sopes, speos, spose
Source: Wiktionary
Pos"se, n.
Definition: See Posse comitatus. In posse. See In posse in the Vocabulary.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FOCUS
(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; “in focus”; “out of focus”
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