Crossword clues for mescal
mescal
- Liquor made from agave
- Dome-shaped cactus
- Distilled spirit from the agave plant
- Cantina quaff
- Cactus with hallucinatory buttons
- Cactus with buttons
- Tequila's kin
- Spirit made from agave sap
- Source of peyote
- Smoky liquor
- Peyote-producing cactus
- Peyote source
- Maguey plant liquor
- Maguey plant intoxicant
- Colorless Mexican liquor
- Colorless Mexican beverage
- Cactus of Southwest
- Beverage made from agave
- Peyote, by another name
- Intoxicant
- Agave drink
- Agave product
- A colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant)
- Cactus liquor
- Small cactus
- Cactus or beverage
- Mexican liquor
- Source of tequila
- Case of Marianne disrupting class, abandoning school - some spirit!
- Essential feature of theme's called for an intoxicant
- Peyote cactus
- Tequila, for example, found in academe's Caltech
- Hallucinogenic cactus
- Cactus plant
- Agave liquor
- Spirit from the desert
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maguey \Mag"uey\, n. [Sp. maguey, Mexican maguei and metl.] (Bot.) Any of several species of Agave, such as the century plant ( Agave Americana), a plant requiring many years to come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying; and the Agave atrovirens, a Mexican plant used especially for making pulque, the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal; and the cantala ( Agave cantala), a Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine. See Agave.
2. A hard fibre used in making coarse twine, derived from the Philippine Agave cantala ( Agave cantala); also called cantala.
Agave \A*ga"ve\, n. [L. Agave, prop. name, fr. Gr. ?, fem. of ? illustrious, noble.] (bot.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidace[ae]) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant ( Agave Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"plant of the genus Agave," found in deserts of Mexico and southwestern U.S., especially the American aloe, or maguey plant, 1702, from Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) mexcalli "fermented drink made from agave," from metl "agave" + ixcalli "stew." Meaning "intoxicating liquor from fermented juice of the agave" is attested in English from 1828. Also the name of a small desert cactus (peyote) found in northern Mexico and southern Texas (1885).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave. 2 The peyote cactus.
WordNet
Usage examples of "mescal".
Was this present outbreak due to the insidious hold of some new virus, breeding and spreading in places more civilised, perhaps stimulated horrifically by mescal, iodine and methylene blue?
Art, this drug addict theory of yours may apply to the mescal, but what about the other items being used in association with it?
The second is to seek expert advice on what mescal, methylene blue and iodine can do to people when used like all these bodies have been using it.
Can you tell me what happens to a person who paints himself with iodine and doses himself with mescal and methylene blue?
He accomplished this feat with the aid of iodine, methylene blue and mescal, and although the manner in which these components react relatively to each other is not fully understood, there is no doubt of their efficiency.
He agreed that mescal served only to stimulate the optic nerves, attuning them to the new vision, but the actual cause was iodine.
Nothing can give a better idea of the economic life of these people than a description of one of their annual mescal harvests.
From the camp where they have passed the winter they take to the trails which lead to the mescal hills.
Black river, and continue on to the mountains where the mescal grows abundantly.
The women of the Stone Age who gathered mescal on the same ground, and perhaps used the same pit, thus far must have used identical tools.
The gathering of the mescal continues for several days, an area covering a radius of perhaps two miles being stripped of its budding plants, for such only are harvested.
There is need for haste in throwing in and covering the mescal, as the steam must be confined to prevent the hot stones from scorching it.
A row of silent matrons offered tacos and hamburgers and rice balls, with mescal and beer and tea.
Shapeless in a faded blanket, she sat behind her ancient cash machine at the wide door of the trading post, taking money for meals and beer and mescal, for stuff off the shelves, for the girls upstairs.
Breathing fast, Davey followed him down the stairs behind the bar and back through the stale stinks of spilled beer and mescal to a serape hanging on the wall.