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.
RHEUM
Rheum, genus Rheum
(noun) rhubarb
rheum
(noun) a watery discharge from the mucous membranes (especially from the eyes or nose)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rheum (countable and uncountable, plural rheums)
(uncountable) Watery or thin discharge of serum or mucus, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. [from 14th c.]
Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism. [from 14th c.]
(poetic) Tears. [from 16th c.]
Hyponyms
• (dried rheum around eyes): crusty (slang), gound (UK dialectal), sleep, sleepy dust (informal)
Source: Wiktionary
Rhe"um, n. Etym: [NL., from L. Rha the river Volga, on the banks of which it grows. See Rhubarb.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.
Rheum, n. Etym: [OF. reume, rheume, F. rhume a cold,, L. rheuma rheum, from Gr. stream. See Stream, n., and cf. Hemorrhoids.] (Med.)
Definition: A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose. I have a rheum in mine eyes too. Shak. Salt rheum. (Med.) See Salt rheum, in the Vocab.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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