hempseedn.
/ˈhɛmpsiːd/ a. The seed of hemp. a caudle of hempseed = ‘hempen caudle’ (hempen adj. 1b).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > hemp plant > seeds or fibre of
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c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in T. Wright Voc. 156 Canoys, hempseed.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Dii Hempe sede, canebuise.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 17 He hath prooued you to haue deserued a cawdell of Hempseed.
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 36 Of a grey colour, and a convex figure, like the half of an Hempseed.
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iv. 31 This hempseed with my virgin hands I sow, Who shall my true-love be, the crop shall mow.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 429 Oil of Hempseed is obtained by expression from the seeds of..hemp.
b. A gallows-bird.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 60 Do do thou rogue, do thou hempseed . View more context for this quotation
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hempseed bird n. a bird fed on hempseed.
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1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. E Many gold Finches, with other birds which are such as our hempseede birds in England.
hempseed calculus n. Pathology name given by Wollaston to some varieties of the mulberry-calculus.
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1864–70 T. Holmes & J. W. Hulke Syst. Surg. (1883) III. 237 The dumb-bell crystals often unite into a mass and form the nucleus of a concretion called the hemp-seed calculus.
1864–70 T. Holmes & J. W. Hulke Syst. Surg. (1883) III. 246 The small, smooth, globular ‘hemp-seed calculus’.
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