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In using it a piece is broken off and masticated along with the _acullico_.
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But at intervals of two and a half or three hours, he regularly masticated about half an ounce of coca leaves, and he kept an acullico continually in his mouth.
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The _acullico_, or ball of masticated coca leaves, is, whilst still lying in the mouth, punctured with this slip of wood, until the lime mixing with it, gives it a proper relish, and the abundant flow of saliva thus excited is partly expectorated and partly swallowed.
chained_bear commented on the word acullico
I knew about the Peruvian/Andean practice of chewing coca leaves with lime, but didn't know this word:
"'I thought we should have to turn back, but the headman led us to something of a shelter among the rocks, took out his pouch of coca and his box of lime and passed them round. We each chewed a ball—an acullico, we call it—and then, resuming our burdens with the greatest ease, we walked fast up the cruel slope through the driving snow...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 178
February 21, 2008