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.
TOUSED
Verb
toused
simple past tense and past participle of touse
Anagrams
• ousted, used to
Source: Wiktionary
TOUSE
Touse, Touze, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Toused; p. pr. & vb. n. Tousing.] Etym: [OE. tosen sq. root64. See tease, and cf. Tose, Toze. ]
Definition: To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.
Touse, n.
Definition: A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
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