Crossword clues for hemlock
hemlock
- Poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
- An evergreen tree
- All parts extremely poisonous
- 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
- Drug source for ancient executions
- State tree of Wash. or Pa.
- Socrates's killer shows a hesitation to bolt
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hemlock \Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.]
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(Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, Cicuta bulbifera, and Cicuta virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
Note: 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.
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(Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America ( Abies Canadensis or Tsuga Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.
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The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a poisonous plant, Old English (Kentish) hemlic, earlier hymlice, hymblice; of unknown origin. Liberman suggests from root hem- "poison," perhaps with the plant name suffix -ling or -ig. As the name of the poison derived from the plant, c.1600. The North American tree so called from 1776, from resemblance of its leaves to those of the plant.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus ''Tsuga'', that grow in North America; the wood of such trees. 2 Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera 3 # ''Conium'', either ''Conium maculatum'' or (taxlink Conium chaerophylloides species noshow=1). 4 # ''Cicuta'', (vern water hemlock pedia=1) plant. 5 The poison obtained from these ''Conium'' and ''Cicuta'' plants .
WordNet
n. poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
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 [syn: poison hemlock, poison parsley, California fern, Nebraska fern, winter fern, Conium maculatum]
soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
an evergreen tree [syn: hemlock tree]
Gazetteer
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Total area (2000): 0.379433 sq. miles (0.982728 sq. km)
FIPS code: 34888
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.591447 N, 82.156365 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43730
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Headwords:
Hemlock
Housing Units (2000): 650
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Total area (2000): 2.539578 sq. miles (6.577476 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37600
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 43.413113 N, 84.231513 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48626
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Headwords:
Hemlock
Wikipedia
The word hemlock may refer to:
Hemlock is a heavy metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada. The band has been together for more than 17 years (placing their origin circa 1993), and has played concerts with likes of Lamb of God, Hatebreed, Soulfly, Otep, Slipknot, Snot, Coal Chamber, Obituary, Drowning Pool, Hed PE, Chimaira, Meshuggah, Korn & Ministry.
Hemlock is a free Emacs text editor for most POSIX-compliant Unix systems. It follows the tradition of the Lisp Machine editor ZWEI and the ITS/ TOPS-20 implementation of Emacs, but differs from XEmacs or GNU Emacs, the most popular Emacs variants, in that it is written in Common Lisp rather than Emacs Lisp and C— although it borrows features from the later editors. Hemlock was originally written by the CMU Spice project in Spice Lisp (later renamed to CMU Common Lisp) for the PERQ computer.
Hemlock is integrated with the Common Lisp compiler, interpreter, and development suite CMU Common Lisp, though it is possible to use it as a standalone editor, or to use GNU Emacs with CMUCL instead — Hemlock integrates better, but has fewer features and addon programs. One distinctive feature is that Hemlock distinguishes Lisp function names from interactive command names, which are given in a more natural-language-like style derived from the original MIT Lisp Machine editor Zmacs and TECO Emacs. It is able to display to a terminal, or use the CLX (Common Lisp X Library) for X11.
Other variants of Hemlock:
- Clozure CL's Macintosh integrated development environment has an editor, which is based on Hemlock code and uses Apple's Cocoa for display.
- The editor of LispWorks is based on an early version of Hemlock. This version is portable and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, X11/Motif and Gtk+. The editor not only runs in LispWorks, but also in Liquid Common Lisp.
- Lucid Common Lisp provided an editor called Helix, which was based on Hemlock.
- Portable Hemlock is a variant of Hemlock running on multiple versions of Common Lisp.
Usage examples of "hemlock".
Farther down came the hemlock in globular masses of feathery branches, then the crowding spruce and fir, with a pale sprinkle of hackmatack, frail child of the swamp, in the bottoms, and a fringe of birch and maple along the shore.
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Hemlock scents mingled with fir and something headily sweet that Diesa thought was osmanthus.
In Kent and Essex, the Hemlock is called Kecksies, and the stalks are spoken of as Hollow Kecksies.
The flower stems are very hollow and dry, nearly as much so as the hemlock or kex, and I have found that when flowers have been cut, either from the moisture collecting in the stem, or some such cause, rot sets in lower down, and soon the branches of bloom head over.
She looked out over the acres of trim grass, boarded by loblolly and hemlock.
The trail went through wet salal, emerged on a narrow ledge thick with spruce and cedar, a few tall hemlocks.
A little extract of monkshood, a few shoots of yew or perhaps a couple of hemlock seeds in the saucehow do you fancy that?
Specifically, I was worried about what Queen Hemlock was doing here in Possiltum but felt I had to travel to Perv to square things away with Aahz.
While the rest of their neighbors on Hemlock Street are decorating and busily preparing for Santa, the Kranks are skipping Christmas and preparing for a cruise, according to unnamed sources.
Both were stupefied to see a tall hemlock growing along the larboard shore teeter in the wind, then continue to tee ter, its roots tearing up from the ground in a muddv tangle and the whole thing collapsing crash splash into the Oriel.
When the mournful Wawonaissa Sorrowing sang among the hemlocks, And the Spirit of Sleep, Nepahwin, Shut the doors of all the wigwams, From her bed rose Laughing Water, Laid aside her garments wholly, And with darkness clothed and guarded, Unashamed and unaffrighted, Walked securely round the cornfields, Drew the sacred, magic circle Of her footprints round the cornfields.
Aparhaso wintered in a thick-timbered valley, wooded down all its length with beech and birch and hemlock.
You can see patches of dead hemlocks, probably killed by the wooly adelgid, which is infesting so many of our forests.
Branches grew in and out of the trunks, in complete disregard for species, hemlock growing out of oak, and arrowwood into banyan.