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.
TARS
Noun
tars
plural of tar
Verb
tars
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tar
Anagrams
• 'rats, RAST, RATs, RTAs, Star, TSRA, arts, arts., rats, sart, star, tsar
Source: Wiktionary
TAR
Tar, n. Etym: [Abbrev. from tarpaulin.]
Definition: A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.] Swift.
Tar, n. Etym: [OE. terre, tarre, AS. teru, teoru; akin to D. teer, G. teer, theer, Icel. tjara, Sw. tjära, Dan. tiære, and to E. tree. *63. See Tree.]
Definition: A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it. Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary.
– Mineral tar (Min.), a kind of soft native bitumen.
– Tar board, a strong quality of millboard made from junk and old tarred rope. Knight.
– Tar water. (a) A cold infusion of tar in water, used as a medicine. (b) The ammoniacal water of gas works.
– Wood tar, tar obtained from wood. It is usually obtained by the distillation of the wood of the pine, spruce, or fir, and is used in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes, oakum, etc., impervious to water.
Tar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tarred; p. pr. & vb. n. Tarring.]
Definition: To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth. To tar and feather a person. See under Feather, v. t.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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