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.
STIVE
Etymology
Noun
stive
(obsolete) A stew.
The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
Verb
stive (third-person singular simple present stives, present participle stiving, simple past and past participle stived)
(UK, dialect, intransitive) To be stifled or suffocated.
(transitive, sometimes with "up") To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
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Source: Wiktionary
Stive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stived; p. pr. & vb. n. Stiving.] Etym: [Probably fr. F. estiver to compress, stow, L. stipare: cf. It. stivare, Sp. estivar. Cf. Stevedore, Stiff.]
Definition: To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling. Sandys. His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other. Sir H. Wotton.
Stive, v. i.
Definition: To be stifled or suffocated.
Stive, n.
Definition: The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding. De Colange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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