treble high-pitched or shrill.
Octoroon a person who has one black great-grandparent.
Good-morrow old-fashioned greeting, used in Shakespeare's time, to mean "good day."
mescal a colorless alcoholic liquor of Mexico made from pulque or other fermented agave juice.
peyote a small, spineless cactus of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, with rounded stems whose buttonlike tops are chewed, specifically in religious ceremonies by Mexican Indians, for their hallucinogenic effects.
