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 the phenethylamine class found naturally in several species of cacti, including peyote, 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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From mescal (from Nahuatl) + -ine.

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Examples

  • To prepare for today, they have fasted from food and drink for four days, although the use of mescaline is encouraged.

    The dance of the sun: Danza del sol 1998

  • To prepare for today, they have fasted from food and drink for four days, although the use of mescaline is encouraged.

    The dance of the sun: Danza del sol 1998

  • To prepare for today, they have fasted from food and drink for four days, although the use of mescaline is encouraged.

    The dance of the sun: Danza del sol 1998

  • 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.

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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.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2005 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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