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Hemlock

noun

Poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium.

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. Synonyms: California fern, Conium maculatum, Nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern.

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

An evergreen tree. Synonym: hemlock tree.

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"Hemlock" Quotes from Famous Books

... my cane on the ground, but, as I might have known, it was solid rock. It was certainly very strange. I flung myself down behind the trunk of a large hemlock. The two blue lights came hovering directly toward me. I lifted my cane,—with a swift blow it cut the air, and,—who can imagine my astonishment? Right in front of me I saw a tiny man, not much bigger than a good-sized kitten, and at his side lay a small red cap; ...

— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... Prussia you may believe is in Petersburg, but he happens to be in Dresden. Good night! Mine and Sir Harry Hemlock's ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... congratulated himself that he would escape the decadence that attends upon old age; and he had, if we may trust Plato, a fair and confident assurance that a happy life awaited him beyond. He died, according to the merciful law of Athens, by drinking hemlock; "the wisest and justest and best," in Plato's judgment, "of all the men that I have ...

— The Greek View of Life • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

... hurried off to the hemlock woods where Solomon Owl lived. He was at home. And he listened carefully to each of his callers—although they all ...

— The Tale of Daddy Longlegs - Tuck-Me-In Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey

... contends with thy Saturnian head, A root of hemlock, and a lump of lead. Gilchrist proceed," ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

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