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.
SPARGE
sprinkle, sprinkling, sparge
(noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water; “baptized with a sprinkling of holy water”; “a sparge of warm water over the malt”
sprinkle, sparge, besprinkle
(verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly; “Sprinkle the lawn”
sparge
(verb) agitate by introducing air or compressed gas; “sparge the water”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
sparge (third-person singular simple present sparges, present participle sparging, simple past and past participle sparged)
To sprinkle or spray.
(transitive) To introduce bubbles into (a liquid).
Noun
sparge (plural sparges)
(brewing) synonym of lautering
Anagrams
• Gasper, gapers, gasper, grapes, pagers, parges
Source: Wiktionary
Sparge, v. t. Etym: [L. spargere; cf. F. asperger.]
Definition: To sprinkle; to moisten by sprinkling; as, to sparge paper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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