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.
UNREAVED
Etymology
Adjective
unreaved (not comparable)
(obsolete) Not torn, split, or parted.
Couldst thou think that a cottage not too strongly built, and standing so bleak in the very mouth of the winds, could for any long time hold tight and unreaved?
Source: Wiktionary
Un*reaved", a. Etym: [See Un- not, and, for -reaved, cf. Rive, and AS. reófan to break.]
Definition: Not torn, split, or parted; not torn to pieces. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
UNREAVE
Un*reave", v. t. Etym: [See Unreeve.]
Definition: To unwind; to disentangle; to loose. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DISPIRITEDLY
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