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Definition: Hashish |
HashishNoun1. Purified resinous extract of hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hashish" was first used: 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Basque (kosto ). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hashish consists of the tetrahydrocannabinol-rich resinous bulbs known as trichomes as well as other minute plant material from the male and/or female flowers of the cannabis plant. It is separated from the plant via various sieving methods, cold-water extraction, or chemical extraction. The resulting plant material is known as kif (aka keef). The kif is compressed into blocks which are easily stored and transported, without degrading the THC content due to oxidation. Pieces are then broken off, warmed up and sometimes mixed with tobacco or marijuana, and smoked in pipes, joints or hookahs. Since THC is fat-soluble, it is also possible to dissolve hashish in butter used for cooking. The Middle East and North Africa and in particular Morocco, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are the main sources of hashish, although the science of hash extraction and the rapid dissemination of this knowledge means that more and more people are making hashish for personal use, using readily available materials or custom built devices such as Bubble Bags.
Black hash, which is generally produced in Nepal, Afghanistan, and India, generally produces a more relaxing, mellow effect. Blonde hash, often from Morocco and the Netherlands, tends to produce more active and cerebral highs.
Hashish is widely available in Europe, as opposed to Marijuana which is more sparsely available on the whole. This is probably because hashish much more compact, and thus much easier to smuggle than Marijuana. Blocks of 100, 125, 200 and 250 grams of hash are common. In some places a block is dissolved, mixed with a foreign material without psychoactive or intoxicating properties, and re-pressed into a hashish block, which is sold as if it was the pure product. This is known as Soap, probably as soap is a commonly suspected additive.
Pure, properly stored hashish of premium quality is soft and moldable by the heat of the fingers alone. Old, improperly stored hashish of poor quality is rock hard and brittle, and has to be heated substantially before it becomes soft enough for use. Most hashish falls in between these two extremes, and the tactile qualities also vary according to the methods used in extraction and pressing.
Many believe that the word assassin derives from the Arabic word Hashshashin, an Islamic sect of militants who supposedly were avid hash-eaters; however, there are those that disagree, since the effects the Hashshashin reported are not generally experienced by people who consume hash [1].
The THC content of hashish that reached the United States, where demand is limited, averaged 6 percent in the 1990s. The marijuana at the CannaTrade 2002 had THC levels ranging between 8 percent and 28 percent; the latter is comparable to some grades of hashish. Note that higher levels of THC do not necessarily imply higher levels of THC consumption, as users will frequently self-titrate (at least when smoking or using a vapouriser), consuming only the desired effect is reached; admittedly, though, it is easier to overdo with more potent material. However, when it is practiced effectively, higher-THC material is healthier to consume, since fewer tars and particulates are inhaled to get the same high.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hashish."
Synonym: HashishSynonym: hash (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite; banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish; Upas tree. |
Intemperance | Bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hashish |
| English words defined with "hashish": Cannabis indica ♦ hash head, Hasheesh, head shop ♦ Indian hemp ♦ toke. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hashish": Assassins. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Hashish" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (hash, hasheesh, hashish), Danish (hashish). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Stay Real : Straight Talk About Marijuana And Hashish - For Young People. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Hash oil, a tar-like liquid distilled from hashish, has an average of 16 percent, with a range as high as 43 percent. (references) | |
Hashish (the sticky resin from the female plant flowers) has an average of 3.6 percent, with a range as high as 28 percent. (references) | ||
Travel | Egypt | The death penalty may be imposed on anyone convicted of smuggling or selling marijuana, hashish, opium, LSD, or other narcotics. (references) |
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| "Hashish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.34% of the time. "Hashish" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.34% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.66% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hashish": hashish addict ♦ hashish oil ♦ hashish smoking ♦ liquid hashish. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hashish": hashish-eaters, hashish-smoking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hashish | 274 |
make hashish | 47 |
making hashish | 26 |
hashish picture | 13 |
hashish recipe | 12 |
hashish photo | 4 |
hashish learn make | 4 |
hashish smoke | 4 |
hashish oil | 4 |
hashish drug | 3 |
hashish homemade | 3 |
hashish production | 3 |
effects of hashish | 2 |
hashish information | 2 |
hashish sahl | 2 |
book great hashish | 2 |
hashish pic | 2 |
hashish smoking | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hashish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hashish (hash, hasheesh). (various references) | |
Arabic | حشيش مخدر (cannabis). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хашиш (bang, cannabis, grass, hash, hasheesh, hemp). (various references) | |
Chinese | 麻汁. (various references) | |
Czech | hašiš (hash, hasheesh). (various references) | |
Danish | hashish, hashisch (cannabis resin, charas), hash (cannabis resin, charas), tossetobak (cannabis resin, charas), rygeklump (cannabis resin, charas), cannabisharpiks (cannabis resin, charas). (various references) | |
Dutch | hasjiesj (cannabis resin, charas), hasj (cannabis resin, charas). (various references) | |
Esperanto | haŝiŝo. (various references) | |
Farsi | حشیش(hasheesh), بنگ (Hemp, Kef). (various references) | |
French | haschisch (hasheesh), hachisch (hasheesh). (various references) | |
German | haschisch (cannabis resin, charas). (various references) | |
Greek | χασίς (cannabis resin, charas). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hasis (cannabis, Crake, hash, hasheesh). (various references) | |
Italian | hashish (cannabis resin, charas), hascisc, resina di cannabis (cannabis resin, charas), resina di canapa indiana (cannabis resin, charas). (various references) | |
Papiamen | hèsh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashishhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | haxixe (hasheesh). (various references) | |
Romanian | haşiş (bhang). (various references) | |
Russian | гашиш (hasheesh, hemp, roach, weed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hašiš (hasheesh, kef, kief). (various references) | |
Spanish | hachís (hash, hasheesh, hemp). (various references) | |
Sranan | ganya. (various references) | |
Swedish | haschisch (bhang), hasch (hash). (various references) | |
Thai | กัญชา (คำแสลง). (various references) | |
Turkish | haşhaş (hash, hasheesh, hemp, marihuana, marijuana, opium poppy, poppy), ot (grass, greenstuff, hay, herb, herbaceous, herbage, herbal, herby, joint, pasturage, pasture, vegetable, weed), esrar (cabala, cabbala, dope, enigma, grass, hash, hasheesh, hay, hemp, joint, junk, marihuana, marijuana, mary jane, maryjane, mystery, pot, secrets, tea, weed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гашиш (bang, hasheesh, hemp, keif). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | hashish. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hashish": hashishes. (additional references) | |
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"Hashish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ashish, Haarhuis, haashish, hahas, Hanshi, hashashin, hashesh, hashhish, Hashmi, Haxhi, Hishashi, mashaikh, Mashishka, ohashi, Shashis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hashish" (pronounced ha"shi'sh or hu'shē"sh) |
| 3 | -sh ē" sh | sheesh. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-h-h-i-s-s" | |
-2 letters: shahs. | |
-3 letters: hahs, hash, hiss, sash, shah. | |
-4 letters: ais, ash, ass, hah, has, his, sha, shh, sis. | |
-5 letters: ah, ai, as, ha, hi, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-h-h-i-s-s" | |
+2 letters: hashishes. | |
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