sprue, tropical sprue, psilosis
(noun) a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sprue (plural sprues)
(medicine) A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.
• tropical sprue
sprue (plural sprues)
(founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
(founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.
sprue (third-person singular simple present sprues, present participle spruing, simple past and past participle sprued)
To remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece.
• Pre-Us, Purse, Rupes, pures, purse, re-ups, reups, rupes, super, super-
Source: Wiktionary
Sprue, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
1. (Founding) (a) Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. (b) The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
2. (Med.)
Definition: Same as Sprew.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 June 2024
(noun) a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
