Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
UNSEEL
Etymology
Verb
unseel (third-person singular simple present unseels, present participle unseeling, simple past and past participle unseeled)
(obsolete) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled.
(obsolete, by extension) To give light to; to enlighten.
Source: Wiktionary
Un*seel", v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + seel.]
Definition: To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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