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The coffee tree.

A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the…

One who keeps a coffeehouse. Addison.

A covered pot im which coffee is prepared,

A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained.

nd West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

tions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

s or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.

ch as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. -- To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.

A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

The coffee bean.

A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.

nd to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]

A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [Turkey]

Pertaining to, or obtained from, coffee. Caffeic acid, an acid obtained from coffee tannin, as a yellow crystalline substance, C9H8O4.

A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee. Caffetannic acid, a variety of tannin obtained from coffee berries, regarded as a glucoside.