Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
blind, unsighted
(adjective) unable to see; “a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision”--Kenneth Jernigan
Source: WordNet® 3.1
unsighted (not comparable)
Not sighted; unseen.
(firearms) Not furnished with a sight.
Source: Wiktionary
Un*sight"ed, a.
1. Not sighted, or seen. Suckling.
2. (Gun.)
Definition: Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon.
Un*sight", a.
Definition: Doing or done without sight; not seeing or examining. [Colloq.] Unsight unseen, a colloquial phrase, denoting unseeing unseen, or unseen repeated; as, to buy a thing unsight unseen, that is, without seeing it. For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, To a new church discipline. Hudibras. There was a great confluence of chapmen, that resorted from every part, with a design to purchase, which they were to do "unsight unseen." Spectator.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.