The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
TRANSMEWING
Verb
transmewing
present participle of transmew
Source: Wiktionary
TRANSMEW
Trans*mew", v. t. & i. Etym: [F. transmuer, L. transmutare. See Transmute.]
Definition: To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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