Definitions for mescals

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mescals mes·cal

Spelling: [me-skal]

IPA: /mɛˈskæl/

Mescals is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in mescals (acelmss).

Definitions for mescals

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 mescals

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 mescals

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Then the quaint Mormon congratulations were offered to mescal.