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.
SWINES
Noun
swines
plural of swine
Anagrams
• sewins, sinews, sweins, wisens
Source: Wiktionary
SWINE
Swine, n.sing. & pl. Etym: [OE. swin, AS. swin; akin to OFries. & OS. swin, D. zwijn, G. schwein, OHG. swin, Icel. svin, Sw. svin, Dan. sviin, Goth. swein; originally a diminutive corresponding to E. sow. See Sow, n.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11. Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare); -- so called because eaten by swine.
– Swine oat (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine.
– Swine's cress (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus Senebiera (S. Coronopus).
– Swine's head, a dolt; a blockhead. [Obs.] Chaucer.
– Swine thistle (Bot.), the sow thistle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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