A small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons.
The hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons.
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Examples for "mescal "
Examples for "mescal "
1 She says it was the mescal that made her husband do it.
2 No drink is more Mexican than pulque, not even tequila or mescal .
3 The pit being ready and the mescal gathered, the work of cooking commences.
4 But one drinks much mescal , and the other has a taste for quarrel.
5 Here he fetched out and handed us a bottle of mescal .
1 He had followed a liter of mezcal with five bottles of Corona.
2 They're Mezcallero 'Paches, and the'r food, th' mezcal , grows thick round ther'.
3 Yes; they spend a part of every year here-abouts, gatherin' mezcal .
4 There were briars, mezcal plants, and cacti-all luxuriant, hirsute, and thorny.
5 While speaking the colonel has poured out a glass of the distilled mezcal juice.
1 Lophophora williamsii , the source of peyote, which Native North Americans have been using for an estimated 5,500 years.
1 Among the most useful are heroin, morphine, opium, coca, hemp, and peyote .
2 I understand, however, that the symptoms of peyote poisoning and polio are identical.
3 The paleface kept turning colors, the way people do when you're on peyote .
4 Has their appreciation for the local stimulants ever extended to peyote ?
5 There were supposedly many more before peyote was outlawed in 1967.
6 After ten minutes I began to feel sick from the peyote .
7 But peyote is not particularly my line of substances anyway.
8 People can talk themselves into anything. But it did look like a peyote plant.
9 My whole body contracted in a convulsive spasm, but the peyote wouldn't come up.
10 Describes the ceremony and tells how the peyote affected her.
11 Reaching its margins, Kalus drew out the remaining peyote buttons.
12 Dryer, less green, but still potent in their otherworldly magic: the five remaining peyote buttons.
13 As usual, peyote had brought him a big Truth.
14 He invited all of us to come to his place and eat peyote with him.
15 We did the zombie dance, circling around Pete like Native Americans in a peyote trance.
16 Cash told me about several cats from 'Frisco who had kicked junk habits with peyote .
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