In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
ROTHERS
Noun
rothers
plural of rother
Anagrams
• Shorter, rhetors, shorter
Proper noun
Rothers
plural of Rother
Anagrams
• Shorter, rhetors, shorter
Source: Wiktionary
ROTHER
Roth"er, a. Etym: [AS. hryedher; cf. D. rund.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Bovine.
– n.
Definition: A bovine beast. [Obs.] Shak. Rother beasts, cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. [Obs.] Golding.
– Rother soil, the dung of rother beasts.
Roth"er, n. Etym: [OE. See Rudder.]
Definition: A rudder. Rother nail, a nail with a very full head, used for fastening the rudder irons of ships; -- so called by shipwrights.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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