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Hasheesh

noun
1.
Purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen.  Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hashish.





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"Hasheesh" Quotes from Famous Books



... a strange kind of melodrama that experience in the first two months of the war. Looking back upon it now, it has just the effect of a prolonged nightmare stimulated by hasheesh or bang—fantastic, full of confused dreams, changing kaleidoscopically from one scene to another, with vivid clear-cut pictures, intensely imagined, between gulfs of dim twilight memories, full of shadow figures, faces seen a little while and then lost, ...
— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs
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... medical faculty that this mirage of the senses, this strange illusion of the mind is beyond dispute. A man under the stress of a feeling which by its intensity has become a monomania, often finds himself in the frame of mind to which opium, hasheesh, or the protoxyde of azote might have brought him. Spectres appear, phantoms and dreams take shape, things of the past live again as they once were. What was but an image of the brain becomes a moving ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
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Words linked to "Hasheesh" :   Indian hemp, Cannabis indica, haschisch, soft drug, hashish


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