They have in Turkey a drink called coffee. . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion.
Bacon.
&fist; The use of coffee is said to have been introduced into England about 1650, when coffeehouses were opened in Oxford and London.
Coffee bug (Zo÷l.), a species of scale insect (Lecanium coffŠa), often very injurious to the coffee tree. -- Coffee rat (Zo÷l.) See Musang.
Cof"fee*house` (?), n. 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 chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself. . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm.
Macaulay.
Cof"fee*man (?), n. One who keeps a coffeehouse. Addison.
Cof"fee*pot (?), n. A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking.
Cof"fee*room` (?), n. A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained.
Cof"fer (?; 115), n. [OF. cofre, F. coffre, L. cophinus basket, fr. Gr. &?;. Cf. Coffin, n.] 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer.
In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns.
Shak.