Rack"-rent`, n.
Definition: A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.
Rack"-rent`, v. t.
Definition: To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
13 January 2025
(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid); “a good soak put life back in the wagon”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
