Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
UNDERCAST
Etymology
Noun
undercast (countable and uncountable, plural undercasts)
(meteorology) An unbroken or nearly unbroken cloud layer below the point of observation.
Antonym: overcast
(mining) An air-passage crossing a road in a mine by means of an airtight box or channel beneath it.
Verb
undercast (third-person singular simple present undercasts, present participle undercasting, simple past and past participle undercast)
To allocate the parts in (a play or film) to insufficiently skilled actors.
To throw under or beneath.
Anagrams
• reducants, transduce, underacts, unredacts
Source: Wiktionary
Un`der*cast", v. t.
Definition: To cast under or beneath.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BRIGHT
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; “bright silver candlesticks”; “a burnished brass knocker”; “she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves”; “rows of shining glasses”; “shiny black patents”
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