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.
WICKS
Noun
wicks
plural of wick
Verb
wicks
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wick
Anagrams
• KWICs, Swick
Source: Wiktionary
WICK
Wick, or Wich, n. Etym: [AS. wic village, fr. L. vicus. In some names of places, perhaps fr. Icel. vik an inlet, creek, bay. See Vicinity, and cf. Villa.]
1. A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick. Stow.
2. (Curling)
Definition: A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players.
Wick, n. Etym: [OE. wicke, weyke, weke, AS. weoca or wecca; cf. D. wiek a roll of lint, Prov. G. wicke, and wieche, OHG. wiohha, Sw. veke, Dan. væge; of uncertain origin.]
Definition: A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned. But true it is, that when the oil is spent The light goes out, and wick is thrown away. Spenser.
Wick, v. i. (Curling)
Definition: To strike a stone in an oblique direction. Jamieson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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