hemlock

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium

   Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock.

2. 2
   noun

   Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera

   Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.

3. 3
   noun

   Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.

   The wind blows and the hemlocks wave their feathery leading shoots. Such a graceful profile, so elegant a tree.

4. 4
   noun

   an evergreen tree

From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hemlīc, hymlīc m and hymlīce f (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”), of uncertain origin. speculative etymology Compare Old English hymele (“hop-vine, hops”), Old English humele (“bryony, widerton, hair moss, gold-hair, morning glory”), Danish and Swedish humle (“hops”), Icelandic humall (“hops”). Perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *háwHmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwHmas from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press out, extract”). ;cognates * (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумӕллӕг (xumællæg, “hops”) * (fr...

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