hem|lock

hem|lock
hem|lock «HEHM lok», noun.
1. a poisonous plant with spotted stems, finely divided leaves, and small, white flowers; poison hemlock. It belongs to the parsley family and was formerly used in medicine as a powerful sedative.
2. a poison made from it: »

A drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk (Keats).

3. any one of a group of evergreen trees of the pine family. Hemlocks have short blunt needles, small cones, drooping branches, and reddish bark. Bark from hemlocks is used in tanning.
4. its wood.
╂[Old English hymlic]

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  • hemlock — hem·lock …   English syllables

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  • hemlock — hem|lock [ hem,lak ] noun count a poisonous plant with small white flowers a. uncount a poison made from the hemlock plant …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • hemlock — hem|lock [ˈhemlɔk US la:k] n [U and C] [: Old English; Origin: hemlic] a very poisonous plant, or the poison that is made from it …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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