Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
TOTEMS
Noun
totems
plural of totem
Anagrams
• motets, mottes, tomset
Source: Wiktionary
TOTEM
To"tem, n. Etym: [Massachusetts Indian wutohtimoin that to which a person or place belongs.]
Definition: A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the Nord American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan. And they painted on the grave posts Of the graves, yet unforgotten, Each his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. Longfellow. The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends tothe clan and watches over it. Bagehot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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