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hashish

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hash·ish  (hshsh, -sh, h-shsh, hä-) also hash·eesh (hshsh, h-shsh, hä-)
n.
A purified resin prepared from the flowering tops of the female cannabis plant and smoked or chewed as a narcotic or an intoxicant.

[Arabic a, hemp, dried grass, from aa, to mow; see in Semitic roots.]

hashish [ˈhæʃiːʃ -ɪʃ], hasheesh [ˈhæʃiːʃ]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a purified resinous extract of the dried flower tops of the female hemp plant, used as a hallucinogenic See also cannabis
2. (Law / Recreational Drugs) any hallucinogenic substance prepared from this resin
[from Arabic hashīsh hemp, dried herbage]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hashish - purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
soft drug - a drug of abuse that is considered relatively mild and not likely to cause addiction
Cannabis indica, Indian hemp - source of e.g. bhang and hashish as well as fiber
Translations
hashish [ˈhæʃɪʃ] Nhachís m

hashish [ˈhæʃɪʃ ˈhæʃiːʃ] nhaschisch m
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hashish
nHaschisch nt

hashish [ˈhæʃɪʃ] nhascisc m
hashish [ˈhæʃɪʃ] nhascisc m

hashish
n hashish [ˈhaʃiːʃ]
(alsohash) (a drug made from) the dried leaves, flowers etc of the hemp plant, usually smoked or chewed; cannabis. dagga, hasjisj قِنَّب هِنْدي ، حَشيش хашиш hašiš hash das Haschisch χασίς hachís hašiš حشيش hasis haschisch חֲשִיש हशीश hašiš hasis ganja hass hascisc ハシシ 하시시, 대마초 hašišas hašišs hasyis hasjies hasj(isj) haszysz haxixe haşiş гашиш hašiš hašiš hašiš hasch, haschisch กัญชา (คำแสลง) esrar 印度大麻的乾葉或花等(或由此製成的毒品) гашиш حشیش، بھنگ ha sít


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That is it precisely, Signor Aladdin; it is hashish -- the purest and most unadulterated hashish of Alexandria, -- the hashish of Abou-Gor, the celebrated maker, the only man, the man to whom there should be built a palace, inscribed with these words, `A grateful world to the dealer in happiness.
"But," I cried, "surely the whole experience of the human race is not to be set aside on account of a single sketch"--I had turned over the leaves and ascertained that there was nothing more in the book--"a single sketch by a wandering American artist who may have done it under hashish, or in the delirium of fever, or simply in order to gratify a freakish imagination.
He felt that they were not analogous to the fantastic and unreal dreams due to intoxication by hashish, opium or wine.
 
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