Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
SILLS
Sills, Beverly Sills, Belle Miriam Silverman
(noun) United States operatic soprano (born in 1929)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
sills
plural of sill
Proper noun
Sills
plural of Sill
Source: Wiktionary
SILL
Sill, n. Etym: [OE. sille, sylle, AS. syl, syll; akin to G. schwelle, OHG. swelli, Icel. syll, svill, Sw. syll, Dan. syld, Goth. gasuljan to lay a foundation, to found.]
Definition: The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like. Hence: (a) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold. (b) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame. (c) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine. (d) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against. Sill course (Arch.), a horizontal course of stone, terra cotta, or the like, built into a wall at the level of one or more window sills, these sills often forming part of it.
Sill, n. Etym: [Cf. Thill.]
Definition: The shaft or thill of a carriage. [Prov. Eng.]
Sill, n. Etym: [Cf. 4th Sile.]
Definition: A young herring. [Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
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