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.
SLIMES
Noun
slimes
plural of slime
Verb
slimes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slime
Anagrams
• milses, misles, missel, smiles
Proper noun
Slimes
(UK, slang) Slimelight, an alternative club night in London, established in the 1980s.
Anagrams
• milses, misles, missel, smiles
Source: Wiktionary
SLIME
Slime, n. Etym: [OE. slim, AS. slim; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. slimen to make smooth, Icel. slim slime, Dan. sliim; cf. L. limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr. limus mud.]
1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.
2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
3. (Script.)
Definition: Bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.
4. pl. (Mining)
Definition: Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce.
5. (Physiol.)
Definition: A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. Goldsmith. Slime eel. (Zoöl.) See 1st Hag, 4.
– Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.
Slime, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sliming.]
Definition: To smear with slime. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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