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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hemp

Hemp (hĕmp), n. [OE. hemp, AS. henep, hænep; akin to D. hennep, OHG. hanaf, G. hanf, Icel. hampr, Dan. hamp, Sw. hampa, L. cannabis, cannabum, Gr. κάνναβις, κάνναβος; cf. Russ. konoplia, Skr. çaṇa; all prob. borrowed from some other language at an early time. Cf. Cannabine, Canvas.] 1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.

2. The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp.

African hemp, Bowstring hemp. See under African, and Bowstring. — Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina. — Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), the fiber of which was used by the Indians. — Hemp agrimony, a coarse, composite herb of Europe (Eupatorium cannabinum), much like the American boneset. — Hemp nettle, a plant of the genus Galeopsis (G. Tetrahit), belonging to the Mint family. — Indian hemp. See under Indian, a. — Manila hemp, the fiber of Musa textilis. — Sisal hemp, the fiber of Agave sisalana, of Mexico and Yucatan. — Sunn hemp, a fiber obtained from a leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea). — Water hemp, an annual American weed (Acnida cannabina), related to the amaranth.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.