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hashish

[ hash-eesh, -ish, ha-sheesh, hah- ]

noun

  1. the flowering tops and leaves of the hemp plant, smoked, chewed, or drunk as a narcotic and intoxicant.
  2. the dried resinous exudate of the flowering tops of the hemp plant, containing more of the psychoactive ingredient THC than is found in marijuana. Compare kief ( def 1a ).


hashish

/ -ɪʃ; ˈhæʃiːʃ; ˈhæʃiːʃ /

noun

  1. a purified resinous extract of the dried flower tops of the female hemp plant, used as a hallucinogenic See also cannabis
  2. any hallucinogenic substance prepared from this resin


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hashish1

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Arabic hashīsh, literally, “dry vegetation” (e.g., hay)

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hashish1

C16: from Arabic hashīsh hemp, dried herbage

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Example Sentences

Karim Abu Hashish took his wife and four kids to an UNRWA school shelter on the edge of Beit Lahiya.

Marijuana plantations and hashish production are, of course, nothing new in Lebanon.

An Arab legend has it that the intoxicating effects of hashish were discovered by an ascetic monk in 1155.

John Greenleaf Whittier was one of the first American writers to deal with the subject when he published The Hashish in 1854.

The Netherlands will outlaw hashish, though Dutch cannabis will still be permitted.

It was the abuse of hashish that, undoubtedly, undermined his constitution, formerly so robust and strong.

He counts as nothing the consideration of the help that genius can draw from the ideas suggested by intoxication of hashish.

Of a surety it is smuggled tobacco from the warehouse of the Sheikh; or maybe hashish, and worth much gold.

Baroudi took it for a moment, inhaled the smoke of the hashish, and poured it out from his mouth and nostrils.

That man whom he had seen driving the Russian horses, and squatting on the floor of the hashish café, might well be at home here.

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