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Definition of Hemlock

1. Noun. Poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium. "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"

2. Noun. Large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous.

3. Noun. Soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock.

4. Noun. An evergreen tree.

Definition of Hemlock

1. n. The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.

Definition of Hemlock

1. Noun. Any of several poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera ''Conium'' (''Conium maculatum'' and ''Conium chaerophylloides'') and ''Cicuta''; the poison obtained from these plants. ¹

2. Noun. Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus ''Tsuga'', that grow in North America; the wood of such trees. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hemlock

1. a poisonous herb [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hemlock

1. 1. The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium. The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by some thought to have been a decoction of Cicuta virosa, or water hemlock, by others, of Conium maculatum. 2. An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, or Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce. "The murmuring pines and the hemlocks." (Longfellow) 3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See Ground. Origin: OE. Hemeluc, humloc, AS. Hemlic, hymlic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemlock

hemitruncus hemizygos vein hemizygosity hemizygote hemizygotes hemizygotic hemizygous hemizygous vein hemless hemline

hemline theory hemlines hemlock (current term) hemlock tree hemlock water dropwort hemlock woolly adelgid hemlock woolly adelgids hemlocks hemloite hemmed

hemmed and hawed hemmed in hemmel hemmels hemmer hemmers hemming

Literary usage of Hemlock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"The first is dated January 7, 1808, in which Lewis says: "I seen Schmidt about the bark and hemlock I couldn't do any better with him than you offered he ..."

2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"However, an old hemlock becomes very ragged and rugged in appearance; and dying, ... The hemlock branches are seldom broken by snow; they droop to let the ..."

3. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"WESTERN hemlock Although of little present importance as a source of tanning materials, the two species of western hemlock (Tsuga ..."

4. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"WESTERN hemlock Although of little present importance as a source of tanning materials, the two species of western hemlock (Tsuga ..."

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