Definition of Peyotes

1. Noun. (plural of peyote) ¹

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Definition of Peyotes

1. peyote [n] - See also: peyote

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peyotes

pewterer
pewterers
pewters
pewterware
pewterwares
pewtery
pewtre
pexelizumab
pexin
pexinogen
pexis
peyer's
peyer's glands
peyer's patch
peyote
peyotes (current term)
peyotism
peyotisms
peyotist
peyotists
peyotl
peyotls
peyse
peysed
peyses
peysing
peytral
peytrals
peytrel
peytrels

Literary usage of Peyotes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal by Herbert Eugene Bolton (1913)
"Id. of the founding of Villa de el Mineral near Mission of peyotes. 133. Orders of the viceroy in consequence of the ..."

2. History of the North Mexican States by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, Joseph Joshua Peatfield, William Nemos (1884)
"peyotes, Nombre do Jesus, mission, 11 1. from the Rio Grande, ... San Pedro de Gigedo, villa, adjoining peyotes mission; founded about 1753 or later with ..."

3. History of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Henry Lebbeus Oak, Frances Fuller Victor, Alfred Bates (1883)
"The poorest of all the missions, sometimes had no padre. Thirty-five Indians in 1777; 59 in 1786; 56 in 1793. San Pedro de Gigedo, villa, adjoining peyotes ..."

4. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1884)
"peyotes, Nombre de Jesus, mission, 111. from the Rio Grande, ... San Pedro de Gigedo, villa, adjoining peyotes mission; founded about 1753 or later with ..."

5. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Following an opening prayer by the chief priest, four peyotes are distributed to each participant, who chews and swallows them, after which the sacred songs ..."

6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"I for November last, recently issued, is an especially noteworthy illustrated article on peyotes, by which name are known certain alkaloid- bearing species ..."

7. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, T. Arundel Harcourt, Albert Goldschmidt, Walter Mulrea Fisher, William Nemos (1874)
"... are in the mountains near the mission of El Santo Nombre de Jesus de peyotes. Л/ог/i, in Doc. Hist. Мех., serie iii., torn, iv., p. 434. ..."

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