Coffee

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The coffee tree.

II. Coffee ·noun The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry.

III. Coffee ·noun The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

Related Words

coffee house
A necessary house. To make a coffee-house of a woman's ****; to go in and out and spend nothing. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
coffee-bush
n. a settlers' name for the NewZealand tree the Karamu (q.v.). Sometimes called also Coffee-plant. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
coffee berry
See coffee plant ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
coffee plant
or Coffee Berry n. namegiven in Tasmania to the Tasmanian Native Holly (q.v.). ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
Coffee House Alley
South out of Upper Thames Street, at No. 56 (Rocque, 1746-L.C.C. List, 1912). In Queenhithe Ward, n...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Coffee House Court
In Moorfields (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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Jamaica Coffee House
In St. Michael's Alley on the east side, next the Church Tower, 1863. Built over the south cloister...

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Jerusalem Coffee-House
In Cowper's Court, Cornhill. For merchants trading to the East Indies, China and Australia. Taken do...

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London Coffee House
On the north side of Ludgate Hill at No. 42, west of St. Martin, Ludgate, in Farringdon Ward Without...

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Smither's Coffee House
A Court so called north out of Thames Street with a passage east to Water Lane. In Tower Ward (Stryp...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
russian coffee-house
The Brown Bear in Bow-street, Covent Garden, a house of call for thief-takers and runners of the Bow...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Baptist Head Coffee House
In Fountain Court, Aldermanbury (Lockie, 1810). The former site of this house, at the corner of Ald...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose