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A pisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.

Pertaining to hemp; hempen. [R.]

A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceæ; hemp. Cannabis Indica (, the Indian hemp, a powerful narcotic, now considered a variety of the common hemp.

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc. By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led. Tennyson.

Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.

A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverle…

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. Balfour.

A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.

tic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

The coarse tow of flax and hemp. McElrath.

A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and welt of flax.

A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).

Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.

To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting.

A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.

le. Boyle. By the eye, in abundance. [Obs.] Marlowe. -- Elliott eye (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served. -- Eye agate, a kind of circle agate, the central part of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging…

A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures. Fiber gun, a kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw, etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at t…

A flake; a thread or twist. [Obs.] Little long fleaks or threads of hemp. Dr. H. More.

The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.