hemp

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♦ Cannabis sativa. A manufactorial plant of equal antiquity with flax. The produce of hemp in fibre varies from three to six hundred weight per acre, and forms the best of all cordage and ropes. It is mixed with opium in the preparation of those rich drugs called hashishe in Cairo and Constantinople. Those who were in the constant use of them were called hashishin (herb-eaters); and being often by their stimulative properties excited almost to frenzy and to murder, the word "assassin" is said to have been derived by the crusaders from this source. While the French army was in Egypt, Napoleon I. was obliged to prohibit, under the severest penalties, the sale and use of these pernicious substances.

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Hemp
·noun The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been exte...

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hemp
Young hemp; an appellation for a graceless boy. ...

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Ambary hemp
·add. ·- A valuable East Indian fiber plant (Hibiscus cannabinus), or its fiber, which is used throu...

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Fimble hemp
·- Light summer hemp, that bears no seed. ...

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Sisal hemp
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Water hemp
·- ·see under <<Hemp>>. ...

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Hemp Yard
1) Out of Petticoat Lane, in Portsoken Ward (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. 2) Out...

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hemp-bush
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Queensland hemp
n. See hemp. ...

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carle-hemp
that hemp which bears the seed. ...

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thistle hemp
a sort of hemp that is early ripe North. ...

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male hemp
, or male hemp See fimble hemp or female hemp. ...

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female hemp
; female hemp, is that which is chiefly used for domestic purposes, and therefore falls to the care ...

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fimble hemp
; female hemp, is that which is chiefly used for domestic purposes, and therefore falls to the care ...

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Hemp yard, Seething Lane
See John de Vere's Yard. ...

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