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noun 
  1. The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
    • 1855: Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
    • :Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashish," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.
    • 1876: Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins
    • :You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?
Translations: 
  • German: Haschisch , abbr. Hasch
  • Spanish: hachí­s
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Etymology: From (Arab.).

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