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.
STIPPLES
Noun
stipples
plural of stipple
Verb
stipples
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stipple
Anagrams
• slippest
Source: Wiktionary
STIPPLE
Stip"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stippled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stippling.] Etym: [D. stippelen to make points, to spot, dot, from stippel, dim. of stip a dot, spot.]
1. To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines. The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. Milman.
2. To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.
Stip"ple, Stip"pling, n. (Engraving)
Definition: A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
2. (Paint.)
Definition: A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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