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Definition of Haschisch
1. Noun. Purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen.
Generic synonyms: Soft Drug
Group relationships: Cannabis Indica, Indian Hemp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haschisch
Literary usage of Haschisch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"The course of our ideas effects of the haschisch, though given " We become thc
eport of impressions [ t "Madness hath imaginary bliss, and most men have no ..."
2. The Treatment of Disease: A Manual of Practical Medicine by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1907)
"haschisch is largely employed in the Orient as a stimulant of the psychic ...
In chronic haschisch intoxication the use of the drug should be stopped. ..."
3. Popular Science Monthly (1902)
"No other drug, indeed, can be said to approach so nearly to haschisch in its
effects. They are alike in the variability of their effects on different ..."
4. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1880)
"The haschisch of Turkey.—Antiquity and exient of its use.— The Nepenthes of Homer,
an Egyptian drug. ..."
5. Images of Good and Evil by Arthur Symons (1899)
"Who said the world is but a mood In the eternal thought of God ? l know it, real
though it seem, The phantom of a haschisch dream In that insomnia which is ..."
6. Three Years in the Libyan Desert: Travels, Discoveries, and Excavations of by J. C. Ewald Falls (1913)
"... of the desert—Wedding at Kurm Abu Mina—Birth and death in the desert—Hospitality
and vendetta—The Mad—A nose for a nose— haschisch smuggling—Slavery. ..."
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