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.
SCAPES
Noun
scapes
plural of scape
Verb
scapes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scape
Anagrams
• Spaces, spaces
Source: Wiktionary
SCAPE
Scape, n. Etym: [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. scape. Cf. Scepter.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The long basal joint of the antennæ of an insect.
3. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft.
Scape, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Scaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping.] Etym: [Aphetic form of escape.]
Definition: To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.
Scape, n.
1. An escape. [Obs.] I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. Shak.
2. Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] Donne.
3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.] Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. Milton.
4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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