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.
WIZENED
shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
(adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; “the old woman’s shriveled skin”; “he looked shriveled and ill”; “a shrunken old man”; “a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws”-W.F.Starkie; “he did well despite his withered arm”; “a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
wizened
simple past tense and past participle of wizen
Adjective
wizened (comparative more wizened, superlative most wizened)
Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
Source: Wiktionary
Wiz"ened, a.
Definition: Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.
WIZEN
Wiz"en, v. i. Etym: [OE. wisenen, AS. wisnian akin to weornian to decay, OHG. wesan to grow dry, G. verwesen to rot, Icel. visna to wither, Sw. vissna, Dan. visne, and probably to L. virus an offensive odor, poison. Cf. Virus.]
Definition: To wither; to dry. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Wiz"en, a.
Definition: Wizened; thin; weazen; withered. A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. Dickens.
Wiz"en, n.
Definition: The weasand. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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