A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc.
An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico.
The juice of the maguey is gathered by cutting out the heart of the flower of the central stem, for whose sustenance this juice is destined.
Large private profit accrues to the owner of maguey estates, and the government excise derived from the sale of the liquor is large.
From the leaf of the maguey is crudely manufactured sailcloth and sacking; and from it is made the bagging now in common use.
The maguey furnishes the native Indian with both food and clothing.
The maguey or mescal, sometimes misnamed the century plant, is common along the foothills bordering the desert.
Some of these people wear cloaks of cotton and of themaguey (or Mexican aloe) and of tanned deer skin, and they wear shoes made of these skins, reaching up to the knees.
The juice of themaguey contains a large amount of vegetable and saccharine matter, and of itself is sufficiently nutritious to sustain a patient for days.
At this time so convinced was I of the great superiority of the maguey over either of the other remedies employed that I determined to place all the patients upon that medicine.
The old gray hoss he stopped right still; The cinches broke like straw, And the old maguey and the Sam Stack tree Went driftin' down the draw.
With his brazen bit and his Sam Stack tree His chaps and taps to boot, And his old maguey tied hard and fast, Bill swore he'd get the brute.
In many parts of the Andes, where the soil is barren, the wild maguey is almost the only vegetation to be seen, and in such places the Indians use it as food.
This was no other than the fleshy heart of the wild maguey (agave), with part of the adhering roots.
Elections in the land of revolution and maguey are to be held on Sunday.
Dim, bluish fields of the unfamiliar maguey were planted in regular rows.
He afterward placed it for safe-keeping in a huge maguey plant, where it was found a generation later by a baptized Indian.
The foreground was of maguey and maize fields stretching away to the mountains.
The Austrians were quartered in the village, and Ney and Driscoll found accommodations for the two girls and themselves farther down the road, at the house of a maguey grower whom they persuaded to vacate.
Toward dusk they reached Tuxtla, a little pueblo on the highroad set mid maguey farms that made the rolling hill slopes of Anahuac look like a giant's cabbage patch.
De Laet, describing the natives of Jalisco early in the seventeenth century, speaks of square cloths made of cotton and maguey tied on the right or left shoulder, and small pebbles or shells strung together as necklaces.
The most usual method was to prick the flesh with a thorn of the cactus-plant; charcoal produced from the maguey was then rubbed into the wounds, and an ineffaceable blue was the result.
When two of the soldiers presently entered Kan's place they found him busily engaged at his work, preparing the fibers of maguey for the loom, a quantity of which was lying in piles about him.
It was constructed of stone, and thatched with maguey leaves, and contained several apartments designed for supplying the needs of a family.
The fibers of the maguey fairly flew through his hands, and higher and wider grew the pile of thready stuff at his left.
By interrupting the blossoming, nature is obliged to carry elsewhere the saccharine or amylaceous matter, which would accumulate in the flowers of the maguey and in the fruit of the Mauritia.
This western slope of the mountains of Los Teques bears the name of Las Cocuyzas, and it is covered with two plants with agave leaves; the maguey of Cocuyza, and the maquey of Cocuy.
It is not ordinarily sold at wholesale; but each maguey estate has its retail shops in town, from which the whole product of the estate is retailed out.
The great value of the maguey plant arises from the amount of intoxicating liquid which it produces, which is the chief source of intoxication among the common people of the table-land.
The uses to which the maguey is applied are more numerous than the methods of its cultivation.
Beyond this, the mezquite and the scarlet leaves of the wild maguey marked the boundary of the forest.
He was a tight, wiry little animal, that could live upon mezquite beans or maguey leaves for an indefinite time; and his abstemiousness was often put to the test.
I behold the magueyof culture (Agave Americana), in all its giant proportions.
But upon the maguey plant near where she had stood there were golden ashes of a strange and wonderful substance.
Under themaguey had sprung up slender stalks of white, bearing delicate gold flowers, and as these flowers waved in the wind a fine golden dust, as fine as powdered ashes, blew away toward the north.
The palm and magueyfibres were prepared for use in the same manner as flax in other countries, being soaked in water, pounded, and dried.
Pulque made from the maguey is mentioned, but this plant does not seem to have played so important a role in the south as in the north; at least there is very little said of it.
At the four corners of the bed were placed green reeds perfumed, and thorns of the maguey with which the pair were to draw blood from their tongues and ears when they sacrificed to the gods.
This painting, preserved in the National Museum, is about twenty by twenty-seven inches, on maguey paper of the finest quality, now mounted on linen.
Later, the fibre of the palm-tree and the magueyfurnished the material for their clothing, and it was only during the reign of King Huitzilihuitl that cotton was introduced.
From this we can note a farther advance to garments manufactured first out of tanned and prepared skins, later of maguey and palm-tree fibres, and lastly of cotton.
It was the wild maguey, of course, but of a species with broad fleshy leaves of dark-green colour, somewhat resembling the maguey of cultivation.
One of their horses or mules might have munched at the maguey in passing; and, viewing the bruised blade from a distance, I should have hazarded just such a conjecture.
VIII-26] The general body of the priests marched along, each one carrying a leaf of maguey in which the thorns were stuck, as in a pincushion, which he had to use.
The great pontiff inaugurated a system of penance, pricking his legs, and drawing blood and staining therewith maguey thorns.
Nods left] Beneath the cypresses Into the maguey fields.
The maguey plant is much like the century plant which you have seen in parks and greenhouses.
They had cotton, and they also had a fine, stout fiber from the maguey plant.
The Aztecs made two kinds of paper, one of the soft inner bark of a tree, the other from the maguey plant.
But not so is it with mescal, a brandy distilled from the lower leaves and roasted roots of the maguey plant.
For pulque is merely the sap of the maguey or "century plant," which accumulates at the base of the flower stalk, just before it begins to shoot up.
Through miles and miles we traversed plantations of the maguey plant from which the pulque is extracted.
He had indeed not advanced far along a level tract of country, covered with maguey and maise plantations, before he was vigorously attacked.
A; b5] soak maguey leaves in the sea to soften them.
Sagangsangun ang ngilit sa dáhun sa magay, The edge of a maguey leaf is sharp and thorny.
The maguey plants cut down in making the clearing appear fallen on the steps.
Growing on the roof are two maguey plants, Agave Americana, in our latitude called the century plant, but under the hot sun of the tropics blooming every four or five years.
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