hashish
noun
the flowering tops and leaves of the hemp plant, smoked, chewed, or drunk as a narcotic and intoxicant.
hasheesh
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a variation of
hashish.
Example Sentences
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Women in rags and tags, and women draped, coifed, and befrilled in the delirium of maddened poet-milliners and the hasheesh dreams of ladies' tailors.
From The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington
Our camels found scarcely a mouthful of hasheesh; no trees were visible, except a few miserable tholukhs.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson
