Dried leaf of a plant chewed in Asia as a mild stimulant

Usage examples of betel.

The requisites for chewing are: a small piece of areca nut, a leaf of the Sirih or betel pepper, a little moistened lime, and, if you wish to be very luxurious, a paste made of spices.

He could have been asking her to bring him a paan, specifying what supari he wanted in it and whether he wished the betel nut flaked, cut, or sweetened.

She was unfamiliar with the red spittle from the betel chewing that was expectorated everywhere around them, and not even the Hindi film songs and the Qawwali on the jukebox in the Olympia had prepared her for the assault of noise along Falkland Road.

As we drove out of the town the houses became fewer and the trees denser, with mosques here and there among them, and in a few minutes we were in the great dark forest of cocoa, betel, and sago palms, awfully solemn and oppressive in the hot stillness of the evening.

Some lit up, others broke them into sections to chew with betel nut, and a few tucked them behind their ears for later.

As a farewell present he had brought the tuan a trilobate betel box in which he might carry his coca-leaves, and a wig, a poor thing, but the best the island could produce.

So Achang chewed betel over the problem for a full hour, and then, being a man of action, took his weapons and went over to Panda the blacksmith.

Upon the car, which was drawn by four richly caparisoned zebus, stood a hideous statue with four arms, the body coloured a dull red, with haggard eyes, dishevelled hair, protruding tongue, and lips tinted with betel.

Although it was predominantly a Malay practice the habit of chewing betel nuts, which released the reddening areca catechu stain, was widespread throughout the East.

Rowser spoke to the driver, who went to look for the watchman, returning in ten minutes with a man chewing betel leaf.

They throw into the fire a cloth containing rice, and another in which they carry betel leaves, and her comb and mirror with which she adorned herself, saying that all these are needed to adorn herself by her husband's side.

Make a litter and take the pilot to the betel nut trees by the runway.

Some lit up, others broke them into sections to chew with betel nut, and a few tucked them behind their ears for later.

The other three prisoners seemed to be recovering from the effects of whatever narcotic drug the betel nut had been adulterated with.

The use of the cocoa, or betel nut, is universal among the men, but not so common with the women until they grow old.