In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ROSINED
Verb
rosined
simple past tense and past participle of rosin
Anagrams
• indorse, ordines, ride-ons, siredon, sordine
Source: Wiktionary
ROSIN
Ros"in, n. Etym: [A variant of resin.]
Definition: The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony. Rosin oil, an oil obtained from the resin of the pine tree, -- used by painters and for lubricating machinery, etc.
Ros"in, v. t.
Definition: To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin. Or with the rosined bow torment the string. Gay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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