Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
SCARS
Noun
scars
plural of scar
Verb
scars
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scar
Anagrams
• crass, csars
Source: Wiktionary
SCAR
Scar, n. Etym: [OF. escare, F. eschare an eschar, a dry slough (cf. It. & Sp. escara), L. eschara, fr. Gr. Eschar.]
1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement. This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. T. Burnet.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust. under Axillary.
Scar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarring.]
Definition: To mark with a scar or scars. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. Shak. His cheeks were deeply scarred. Macaulay.
Scar, v. i.
Definition: To form a scar.
Scar, n. Etym: [Scot. scar, scaur, Icel. sker a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea; akin to Dan. skiær, Sw. skär. Cf. Skerry.]
Definition: An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth. [Written also scaur.] O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. Tennyson.
Scar, n. Etym: [L. scarus, a kind of fish, Gr. ska`ros.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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