Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
WIVING
Verb
wiving
present participle of wive
Source: Wiktionary
WIVE
Wive, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wived; p. pr. & vb. n. Wiving.] Etym: [AS. wifian, gewifian. See Wite.]
Definition: To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.
Wive, v. t.
1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. "An I could get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and wived." Shak.
2. To take for a wife; to marry. I have wived his sister. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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