Definitions for mescal

• Definition
• Anagrams (176)

mescal mes·cal

Spelling: [me-skal]

IPA: /mɛˈskæl/

Mescal is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in mescal (acelms).

Definitions for mescal

noun

1. an intoxicating beverage distilled from the fermented juice of certain species of agave.
2. any agave yielding this spirit.
3. Also called peyote. either of two species of spineless, dome-shaped cactus, Lophophora williamsii or L. diffusa, of Texas and northern Mexico, yielding the hallucinogen peyote.

Origin of mescal

1695-1705, Americanism; Mexican Spanish mescal, mezcal, mexcal Nahuatl mexcalli intoxicant distilled from agave (perhaps equivalent to me(tl) maguey + (i)xcalli something cooked)

Examples for mescal

Would you like some aguardiente de pesco, some mescal, or some chica?

He has eaten tunas, mescal, pinion nuts, and corn at my hawa.

“Your mescal probably killed him,” said Rodrigo indifferently.

It grows in the valleys, while the mescal grows in the mountains.

mescal is half white, and her ways have been the ways of the white man.

mescal meant to marry your son when I left for the range last fall.

Snap had been furious, his father grave, mescal tearful and ashamed.

The peddler called anxiously, "Will you give me some mescal?"

Then the quaint Mormon congratulations were offered to mescal.

It was nearly time for him to make his Sunday call upon mescal.