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.
SERAPHINE
Etymology
Proper noun
Seraphine
A female given name from Latin.
Anagrams
• Hesperian, hesperian
Noun
seraphine (plural seraphines)
(music) An early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.
Anagrams
• Hesperian, hesperian
Source: Wiktionary
Ser"a*phine, n. Etym: [From Seraph.] (Mus.)
Definition: A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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