The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
Scarn, n. Etym: [Icel. skarn; akin to AS. scearn. Cf. Shearn.]
Definition: Dung. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray. Scarn bee (Zoöl.), a dung beetle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 September 2024
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.