There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
SQUINTERS
Noun
squinters
plural of squinter
Source: Wiktionary
SQUINTER
Squint"er, n.
Definition: One who squints.
SQUINT
Squint, a. Etym: [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinisch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Cf. Askant, Askance, Asquint.]
1. Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
2. Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." Milton.
Squint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squinting.]
1. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. Some can squint when they will. Bacon.
2. (Med.)
Definition: To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross- eyed.
3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
Squint, v. t.
1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. Shak.
Squint, n.
1. The act or habit of squinting.
2. (Med.)
Definition: A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
3. (Arch.)
Definition: Same as Hagioscope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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