An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
RUSTLED
Verb
rustled
simple past tense and past participle of rustle
Anagrams
• Trudels, lustred, strudel
Source: Wiktionary
RUSTLE
Rus"tle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rustled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rustling.] Etym: [AS. hristlan to rustle; or cf. Sw. rusta to stir, make a riot, or E. rush, v.]
1. To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. Shak. Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Shak.
2. To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. [Slang, Western U.S.]
Rus"tle, v. t.
Definition: To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
Rus"tle, n.
Definition: A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling. When the noise of a torrent, the rustle of a wood, the song of birds, or the play of lambs, had power to fill the attention, and suspend all perception of the course of time. Idler.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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