Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
snaphance (plural snaphances)
A spring lock for discharging a firearm.
The firearm to which it is attached.
(obsolete) A trifling or second-rate thing or person.
(obsolete) A snappish retort.
Source: Wiktionary
Snap"hance`, n. Etym: [D. snaphaan a gun, originally, the snapping cock of a gun. See Snap, and Hen.]
1. A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached. [Obs.]
2. A trifling or second-rate thing or person. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 June 2024
(noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); “there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare”
Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.