Hashish vs Hashshashin - What's the difference?
hashish | hashshashin |
The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
* 1855 , Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah , Dover 1964, p. 44:
* 1876: Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins
A cannabis extract (See ).
(slang) marijuana generally.
A religious group who used hashish to create mystic visions; they later became associated with the assassination of invading Christian leaders during the Crusades; their descendants are the Khojas.
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* hasheeshNoun
(en-noun)- Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "HashÃsh ," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.
- You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?