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1. huskanaw | huskanoy, n. View full entry 1705
...The ceremony or ordeal, formerly in use among the Indians of Virginia, of preparing young men for the duties of manhood by means of solitary confinement and the use of narcotics....
2. 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...
3. ololiuqui, n. View full entry 1894
...A tropical American morning glory, Turbina corymbosa (family Convolvulaceae). Also: a psychoactive drug prepared from the seeds of this plant, used traditionally for ritual purposes by the Aztecs....
4. 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...
5. skunk, n. View full entry 1634
...A North American animal of the weasel kind, Mephitis mephitica, noted for emitting a very offensive odour when attacked or killed....
6. teonanacatl, n. View full entry 1875
...Any of several hallucinogenic fungi, esp. Psilocybe mexicana, found in Central America. Also attrib....
7. tonga, n.3 View full entry 1852
...A beverage inducing stupefaction and delirium, prepared from the seeds of Datura sanguinea by the Indians of Peru. Also in comb....
