Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
WEAPONS
Noun
weapons
plural of weapon
Anagrams
• snow pea, snowpea
Source: Wiktionary
WEAPON
Weap"on, n. Etym: [OE. wepen, AS. w; akin to OS. w, OFries. w, w, D. wapen, G. waffe, OHG. waffan, wafan, Icel. vapn, Dan. vaaben, Sw. vapen, Goth. w, pl.; of uncertain origin. Cf. Wapentake.]
1. An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Cor. x. 4. They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped. Milton.
2. Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon. "Woman's weapons, water drops." Shak.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. Concealed weapons. See under Concealed.
– Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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