Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hallucinogenic alkaloid, C11H17NO3, obtained from peyote buttons and used by certain Native American tribes in religious rituals and illicitly as a recreational drug.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Methyl-3, 4, 5-trimethoxybenzylamine, (CH3O)3C6H2.CH2NHCH3, an alkaloid found in mescal-buttons. It crystallizes in needles which melt at 151° C.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
psychedelic drug of thephenethylamine class found naturally in several species ofcacti , includingpeyote , San Pedro, and Peruvian Torch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons
Etymologies
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Examples
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To prepare for today, they have fasted from food and drink for four days, although the use of mescaline is encouraged.
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To prepare for today, they have fasted from food and drink for four days, although the use of mescaline is encouraged.
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To prepare for today, they have fasted from food and drink for four days, although the use of mescaline is encouraged.
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I’ve done LSD once and I’ve heard that mescaline is pretty damn potent as well.
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Frank was most knowledgeable on the subject and explained that peyote was a cactus that contained a powerful hallucinogen called mescaline and that it had been used by the indigenous people of central Mexico during certain religious rituals.
Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010
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Flashback to taking a hit of so-called mescaline in the summer after graduating from high school, turning on the TV, and for the first time watching the Watergate Hearings.
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She was on mescaline, which is a hallucinogenic drug.
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You would probably be more familiar with it as the drug mescaline, which is obtained from the button-top of the peyote cactus.
Nightway Janet Dailey 1981
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You would probably be more familiar with it as the drug mescaline, which is obtained from the button-top of the peyote cactus.
Nightway Janet Dailey 1981
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You would probably be more familiar with it as the drug mescaline, which is obtained from the button-top of the peyote cactus.
Nightway Janet Dailey 1981
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