Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
(noun) German romantic writer (1759-1805)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Schiller
A German surname.
• chillers, rechills
schiller (usually uncountable, plural schillers)
(mineralogy) A bronze-like lustre observed in certain minerals, such as hypersthene, due to the presence of minute parallel inclusions.
• chillers, rechills
Source: Wiktionary
Schil"ler, n. Etym: [G., play of colors.] (Min.)
Definition: The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and in sometimes of secondary origin. Schiller spar (Min.), an altered variety of enstatite, exhibiting, in certain positions, a bronzelike luster.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
