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‖ kava|ˈkɑːvə|
Also cava, kaava, kawa; also ava.
[South-western Polynesian.]
An intoxicating beverage prepared from the macerated (chewed, grated, or pounded) roots of the Polynesian shrub Piper methysticum or Macropiper latifolium (family Piperaceæ). Also, this plant, or its root.
1817J. Martin Mariner's Tonga Islands ix, Finow..proposed..to go into this cavern and drink cava. 1866Treas. Bot. 708/1 The root called by the Polynesians Ava or Kava. Ibid., It appears that Kava has, like tobacco, a calming effect rather than an intoxicating one. 1890Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 2, I hope some day to offer you a bowl of kava there, or a slice of a pineapple.
b. attrib. and Comb., as kava bowl, kava-drinker, kava-drinking, kava plant, kava root; also kava-ring, a ceremonious gathering to drink kava.
1823Byron Island ii. ii, Strike up the dance! the cava bowl fill high! 1866Treas. Bot. 708/2 All the lower classes of whites in Feejee are Kava drinkers. 1870Meade New Zeal. 302 When a kava-ring takes place..the time for speaking terminates with the expression of the kava.
Hence ˈkavain, kawain Chem. [Fr. kawaïne, Ger. kavahin], a crystalline resin occurring in the kava root (Morley & Muir, 1892).
1865–72Watts Dict. Chem. III. 445 Kawain, a crystallisable non-azotised substance, from Kawa-root. 1881Ibid. 3rd Suppl. 1145 Kawain agrees in many of its properties with cubebin. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 18 The root [of kava] contains..a neutral crystalline principle discovered in 1844 by Mr. J. R. N. Morsori, and called kavahine. 1887Syd. Soc. Lex., Kavahin, Kavaïn, same as Methysticin. |