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n. - Purified resinous extract of the hemp plant.

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  • Chinese tale two friends, wandering in the T'ien-t'ai mountains, are entertained by two beautiful girls, who feed them on a kind of haschisch, a drug made from hemp; and...
  • The enchantment which held me spell-bound, intoxicated my mind like fumes of haschisch, and I could hardly recognise myself in this fairy-world character; it required an...
  • But how beautiful, how sane, how uplifting it seemed, compared with the feverish haschisch dream in which she was now living.
  • This piece of art, which gave its name to the establishment, was the work of one of Mrs. St John Deloraine's friends, an artist of the highest promise, who fell an early victim...
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