U.S. Also tizwin. [ad. Amer. Sp. texguino.] An intoxicating drink made from maize, wheat, or mesquite beans by the American Indians.
1891. J. G. Bourke, in Cent. Mag., March, 655/1. The Apache intoxicant, ‘tizwin,’… [is] beer, made from fermented corn.
1911. Webster, Tiswin, tizwin.
