An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
WHISKER
whisker, vibrissa, sensory hair
(noun) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
bewhisker, whisker
(verb) furnish with whiskers; “a whiskered jersey”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
whisker (plural whiskers)
That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
A hair of the beard.
One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
(colloquial) The (very small) distance between two things.
(nautical) Spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.
(statistics) A graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot.
One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
(metallurgy) A small tendril that forms on metal.
Source: Wiktionary
Whisk"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
2. Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural. Hoary whiskers and a forky beard. Pope.
3. pl.
Definition: That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.
4. A hair of the beard.
5. One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
6. pl. (Naut.)
Definition: Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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