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1. anatta | anatto, n. View full entry 1667
...An orange-red dye, procured in Central America from the waxy pulp surrounding the seeds of the Bixa orellana; used in dyeing, and for colouring cheese....
2. atole, n. View full entry 1716
...A kind of corn or other meal; gruel or porridge made of this....
3. cassiri, n. View full entry 1796
...An intoxicating liquor made in Guyana from fermented sweet potatoes....
4. charqui, n. View full entry 1758
...Beef prepared for keeping by cutting into thin slices and drying in the wind and sun; ‘jerked’ beef (the latter being a corruption of this word)....
5. chicha, n. View full entry 1772
...A fermented liquor made from maize and other plants by the indigenous peoples of South America....
6. guarapo, n. View full entry 1772
...A drink made from the fermented juice of the sugar-cane....
7. hominy, n. View full entry 1629
...Maize or Indian corn hulled and ground more or less coarsely and prepared for food by being boiled with water or milk....
8. Hoochinoo, n. View full entry 1877
...A member of a small Indian people found in Admiralty Island, Alaska. Also attrib. or as In pl., this people....
9. ita, n. View full entry a1832
...In full, ita palm. The tropical South American fan-palm, Mauritia flexuosa, or the drink made from its fermented sap; cf. eta...
10. kinnikinnic | kinnikinnik, n. View full entry 1799
...A mixture used by North American Indians as a substitute for tobacco, or for mixing with it; the commonest ingredients are dried sumach-leaves and the inner bark of dogwood or willow. Also...
11. mescal, n. View full entry 1709
...Any of various plants of the genus Agave, of Mexico and the south-western United States; esp. any of several large agaves with paniculate inflorescences, including those grown for...
12. moose, n.2 View full entry 1614
...The elk, Alces alces....
13. Nanaimo, n. and adj. View full entry 1827
...A member of a confederation of North American Indian peoples inhabiting, at the time of first contact with Europeans, the area of Vancouver Island around present-day Nanaimo. Now hist....
14. octli, n. View full entry 1787
...Among the Aztecs: = pulque...
15. peyote, n. View full entry 1849
...A hallucinogenic drug made from the cactus Lophophora williamsii (see sense 2), containing mescaline and used esp. in some North American Indian rituals. Cf. mescal...
16. piki, n. View full entry 1859
...Bread made from maize-meal, baked in very thin sheets on heated stones by the Hopi Indians of the south-western U.S....
17. poke, n.3 View full entry 1634
...A plant (of uncertain identity) used by North American Indians for smoking; the dried leaves of this plant....
18. ponask, v. View full entry 1922
...trans. To cook (food, esp. game or fish) on a stick set in the ground next to an open fire....
19. pone, n.2 View full entry 1634
...U.S.regional (chiefly south. and south Midland). Originally: a North American Indian bread made of maize flour in thin loaves and cooked in hot ashes (now ...
20. posole, n. View full entry 1699
...In Mexican and Central American cooking: maize prepared by boiling and steeping in an alkaline solution and grinding, for use in food or drink, hominy; (also) maize stew or soup made with...
