Pulque, a vinous beverage, made in Mexico, by fermenting the juice of the various species of the agave. It resembles cider, but has a disagreeable odor, like that of putrid meat.


Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

Pul"que (?), n. [Sp.]

An intoxicating Mexican drink. See Agave.

 

© Webster 1913.

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