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.
RIDDLE
riddle
(noun) a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
riddle, conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser
(noun) a difficult problem
riddle
(verb) set a difficult problem or riddle; “riddle me a riddle”
riddle
(verb) explain a riddle
riddle
(verb) speak in riddles
permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle
(verb) spread or diffuse through; “An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration”; “music penetrated the entire building”; “His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks”
riddle
(verb) pierce with many holes; “The bullets riddled his body”
riddle, screen
(verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Riddle
A surname.
A city in Oregon.
Anagrams
• dreidl, lidder
Etymology 1
Noun
riddle (plural riddles)
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
Synonyms: enigma, conundrum, brain-teaser
An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
Verb
riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
(transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
Etymology 2
Noun
riddle (plural riddles)
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Verb
riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)
To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.
To fill with holes like a riddle.
To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
Etymology 3
Noun
riddle (plural riddles)
(obsolete) A curtain; bed-curtain
(religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south
Etymology 4
Verb
riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)
(transitive, obsolete) To plait
Anagrams
• dreidl, lidder
Source: Wiktionary
Rid"dle, n. Etym: [OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to Gr. rein clean. See Crisis, Certain.]
1. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Rid"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling.]
1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
Rid"dle, n. Etym: [For riddels, s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. rraadsel, G. räthsel; fr. AS. r to counsel or advise, also, to guess. sq. root116. Cf. Read.]
Definition: Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. Milton. 'T was a strange riddle of a lady. Hudibras.
Rid"dle, v. t.
Definition: To explain; to solve; to unriddle. Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. Dryden.
Rid"dle, v. i.
Definition: To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. "Lysander riddels very prettily." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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