Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SCUR
Etymology 1
Noun
scur (plural scurs)
(veterinary) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.
Etymology 2
Verb
scur (third-person singular simple present scurs, present participle scurring, simple past and past participle scurred)
(intransitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.
Anagrams
• CRUs, RUCs, crus, curs, rucs
Source: Wiktionary
Scur, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Scour to run.]
Definition: To move hastily; to scour. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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