The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
THITHER
there, thither
(adverb) to or toward that place; away from the speaker; “go there around noon!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
thither (not comparable)
(chiefly, literary or legal, dated) To that place.
(dated) To that point, end, or result.
Synonyms
• there, over there, away there; yonder (archaic or dialect)
Antonyms
• thence
Adjective
thither (not comparable)
(archaic) The farther, the other and more distant.
Synonyms
• See farther
Source: Wiktionary
Thith"er, adv. Etym: [OE. thider, AS. edhider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þaedhra there, Goth. þaþro thence. See That, and The.]
1. To that place; -- opposed to Ant: hither. This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34.
2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.
Syn.
– There. Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together.
Thith"er, a.
1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. W. D. Howells.
2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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