/me skal"/ , n.
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.
[ 1695-1705, Amer.; mescal, mezcal, mexcal mexcalli intoxicant distilled from agave (perh. equiv. to me ( tl ) maguey + ( i ) xcalli something cooked) ]