hemp-resin 
hemp-resin (hemp'rez"in), . The resinous 
narcotic product of the hemp as it grows in 
India : same as churntx. 
hemp-seed (hemp'sed), n. The seed of hemp. 
It is used as food for birds, and also yields an 
oil suitable for various purposes. 
In the same were four Turtle Doves, and many gold 
Finches, with other birds which are such as our hempxeede 
birds in England. Coryat, Crudities, I. 19. 
[In the following passage hemp-seed is usually supposed 
to be an intended blunder for homicide. 
Do, do, thou rogue ! do, thou hemp-seed ! 
Shak.,2Hen. IV., 11. l.j 
To have hemp-seed sown for one, to be destined for 
the gallows. [Colloq.] 
hempstringt (hemp'string), n. One who de- 
serves or is likely to be hanged; a crack- 
hemp. 
Vau. A perfect young hempstring 1 
Van. Peace, least he overheare you. 
Chapman, Monsieur D'Ollve, T. 1. 
hemp-tree (hemp'tre), . The chaste-tree, Fi- 
tex Agnus-castus, of the Mediterranean region. 
See Vitex, and agnus castus, under agnus. 
hempweed (hemp'wed), . 1. The hemp-ag- 
rimony, Eupatorium cannabinum. 2. Seaweed; 
kelp. [Scotch.] climbing hempweed, Mikania 
scandtns, a climbing vine of theUnited States and tropical 
America, allied to Eupatorium. 
hempwort (hemp'wert), n. Lindley's name 
for a plant of the order Cannabinacece, equiva- 
lent to the tribe Cannabinece of Bentham and 
Hooker that is, the hemp and the hop. 
hempy (hem'pi), a. and n. [< hemp + -y 1 .] I. 
a. 1. Like hemp. [Rare.] 
Twist the rind and the Tree [called maguais] there is a 
Cotton, or hempy kind of moss, which they wear for their 
Clothing. Bowelt, Letters, ii. 54. 
2. Roguish; riotous; romping. [Scotch.] 
I was a daft hempie lassie then, and little thought what 
was to come o't. Scott, Old Mortality, xlii. 
II. .; pi. hempies (-piz). 1. One for whom 
the hemp grows ; a rogue ; a giddy young per- 
son of either sex : used jocularly. [Scotch.] 
When I was a hempie of nineteen or twenty, it wasna 
my fault if I wasna at the merrymakings time about. 
Scott, Monastery, iv. 
2. The hedge-sparrow, Accentor modularis. 
[Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
hemselft. nemselvet, hemselvent, pron. pi. 
[ME., < hem, obj. pi. of he, + self, setvej pi. adj.: 
see he 1 , I., D (a), and self, and himself. Them- 
selves is a different form.] Themselves. 
That yeveth hem ful ofte in many a gyse 
Wei bettre than the! can A<m(^devyse? 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 396. 
hemstitch (hem'stich), n. The ornamental 
heading for a hem in linen or cotton fabrics, 
produced by drawing out a few threads run- 
ning parallel to the hem and catching toge- 
ther in groups those running the other way. 
Charlotte Bronte was brought up in old-fashioned days 
of work-bag and hem-stitch. 
New York Weekly Witness, Sept. 30, 1886. 
hemstitch (hem'stich), v. t. [< hemstitch, n.] 
To ornament with a hemstitch. 
Cousin Delight looked up ; and her white ruffling, that 
she was daintily hemstitching, fell to her lap. 
Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite, i. 
hemuset, heymuset, n. [Oi 
tamed.] The male of the roe 
year. Bailey, 1731. 
The roebuck is the first year a kid, the second year a 
girl, the third year a hemv.se. 
Return from Parnassus (1606), ii. 5. 
hemysperiet, A Middle English form of 
hemisphere. 
hen 1 (hen), n. [Early mod. E. also henne; < 
ME. hen, pi. hennes, < AS. henn, hcenn, hten 
(also once Jtenna), a hen (= MD. henne, D. hen = 
MLG. home, hinne = OHG. henna, MHG. G. 
henne, a hen; equiv. to D. hoen = MLG. hon = 
OHG. hun, huon, MHG. huon, G. huhn = Icel. 
hcena (for hcena) = Sw. hona = Dan. hone, a hen ; 
cf . Dan. Sw. hons, poultry) ; fern, of masc. AS. 
liana (not in E.) = OS. hano = D. haan = MLG. 
hane = OHG. hano, MHG. hane, han, G. hahn = 
Icel. han i = Sw. Dan. hane = Goth, hana, a cock, 
lit. the 'singer' (so chanticleer, q. v.), < root of 
L. canere, sing, > ult. E. chant, chanticleer, cant?, 
canticle, accent, etc. This verb (L. canere), like 
E. sing, had orig. a general meaning, being 
often used of the cries of birds and other ani- 
mals.] 1. The female of the domestic fowl: 
opposed to cock. 
In thys yle ys . . . Plente of lambes, Gotys, motons, 
and also hennys, and capons. 
Torkinglon, Diane of Eng. Travell, p. 60. 
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" Boys ! " shriek'd the old king, but vainlier than a hen 
To her false daughters in the pool. 
Tennyson, Princess, v. 
2. Any female bird ; especially, used attribu- 
tively, equivalent to female : as, hen canary, 
hen sparrow, etc. 
I have no pheasant, cock nor hen. Shak., \V. T., iv. 3. 
3. In a general sense, the common domestic or 
barn -yard fowl ( Gallus domesticus), or any speci- 
men of this fowl, in all its varieties and without 
regard to gender; a chicken. See Gallus 1 . 
Hell find you out a food 
That needs no teeth nor stomach, a strange furmety 
Will feed ye up as fat as hens i' the foreheads. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, i. 2. 
4. A bivalve mollusk of the family Venerida 
and genus Tapes. At Hereford in England the 
name is given to two species, T. deeussata, the 
purr, and T. aurea. See hen-clam Blue Hen's 
Chicken. See chicken*. Our Lady of Heaven's hent, 
or Our Lady's hent, the wren. 
Malisons, Malisons, mair than ten. 
That harry our Lady of Heaven's hen 1 
Old Scotch rime. 
Pharaoh's hen. See Egyptian vulture, under vulture. 
Port Egmont hen, a sailors' name of the great skua 
of the Falklands, Stercorarius antarcticus. Potterton 
hen, the black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, 
named from a loch near Aberdeen. Where the hen 
scratches, the gist of a difficulty ; that on which the rest 
depends or turns. [Colloq. J 
hen' 2 (hen), adv. [Also dial, hine; < ME. henne, 
heonne, hinne, abbr. of henene. heonene, and with- 
out adv. suffix -e, henen,<AS. heonan, hionan, and 
with adv. suffix -e, heonane, heonone, hence, = 
05. hinan = OHG. hinnan, hindn, hinana, MHG. 
In inn'ii, G. hinntn, hence; adverbial formations 
with suffix -an, -ana, < AS. heona, in comp. hin-, 
hence (= OHG. hina, MHG. hint, hin, G. hin, 
there, thither, = Dan. hen, away, further, on) ; 
with the suffix -na (cf. Goth, hina, AS. hine, ace. 
masc., him : see he 1 ), from the pronominal stem 
lii-. seen in E. he, and in L. hie, this, and him-, 
hence: see he 1 .] Hence: the more original form. 
[Now only prov. Eng.] 
I was so henne in another londe, 
And helde my boke In my honde, 
And taujt men of my sermoun, 
I ne wote how I cam to this toun. 
King Horn (E. E. T. 8.), p. 84. 
Many a yeer as it is passed henne 
Syn that my tappe of life bigan to renne. 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 35. 
Damysell, seyde Befyse then, 
Speke on, and go hen. 
MS. Cantab, ft. iL 38, f. 102. (HalliwtU.) 
hen 3 (hen), v. t. ; pret. and pp. henned, ppr. hen- 
ning. [< hen 2 , adv. (cf. hence, v.), or else a var. 
of ftench 1 .] To throw. [Prov. Eng.] 
hen-and-chickens (hen'and-chik'enz), n. 1. 
A proliferous variety of the daisy, Bellis peren- 
nis. 2. A species of houseleek, Sempervivum 
globiferum, native of the continent of Europe, 
sometimes cultivated. 3. The ground-ivy, Ne- 
peta Glechoma. 
henbane (hen'ban), n. K ME. henbane, henne- 
bane (> F. hanebane) (cf.Dan. h<insebane=Svt. 
honsbane) ; < hen 1 + bane 1 . The AS. name was 
henne-belle, hamne-belle, lit. ' hen-bell.'] A plant 
of the genus Hyoscyamus, natural order Solana- 
ce<e. Common henbane is H. niger, a native of Europe 
and northern Asia, and adventitious in the United States. 
henceforward 
action. They yield hyoscine and hyosciamine. When 
taken in any considerable quantity, the herb acts as a 
deadly poison to man anil most animals, and is especially 
destructive to domestic fowls (whence the name). Swine 
are said to eat it with impunity. Also called 
nightshade and hog's-bean. 
That to which old Socrates was curst, 
Or henbane juice, to swell 'em till they burst. 
The henbane or insane-root, which the Gauls used for 
their poisoned arrows. 
C. Elton, Origins of Eng. Hist., p. 260. 
henbellet.M- [ME.,< AS. henne-belle, hantne-belle, 
< In >in. hen, + belle, bell.] Henbane. Halliwell. 
henbill (hen'bil), w. [< hen 1 + bill 1 .] 1. The 
hen-billed diver, or Carolina grebe or dabchick, 
Podilymbus podiceps. 2. The common Ameri- 
can coot, Fulica americana. [New Jersey, U. S.] 
hen-billed (hen'bild), a. Having a bill like a 
hen's : specifically said of the hen-billed diver 
or Carolina grebe. See henbill. 
henbit (hen'bit), n. [< MLG. hennebit(cf. G. hiih- 
iss); as hen 1 + bit 1 .] 1. A weed, Lamium 
fin not ascer- 
eer in its third 
Henbane (ffyescyamus 
a, fruit ; b, capsule, cut transversely. 
It is a coarse, erect biennial herb, found in waste ground 
and loose dry soil, having soft, clammy, hairy foliage of a 
disagreeable odor, pale yellowish-brown flowers streaked 
with purple veins, and a five-toothed calyx. The leaves 
are used in medicine, and resemble belladonna in their 
amplexicaule, or dead-nettle, specifically called 
the greater henbit. 2. The ivy-leafed speed- 
well. Veronica hederasfolia, specifically called 
the lesser or small henbit. 
icedwell, or small henbit. 
ham, Physico-Theology. 
hen-blindness (hen'blind"nes), n. Inability to 
see in a dim light : same as nyctalopia. 
hen-buckie(hen'buk"i),n. The whelk. [Scotch.] 
hen-cavey (hen'ka"vi),. Ahen-coop. [Scotch.] 
hence (hens), adv. [With false spelling -ce, as 
in tltence, wltence, once, twice, thrice, and in pi. 
pence, mice, etc., for orig. -s ; < ME. liens, contr. 
of hennes, this, with adverbial gen. suffix -es, 
for earlier henne, mod. E. dial, hen : see hetfi.] 
1. From this place; from or away from here. 
[By ellipsis of go, depart, or an equivalent verb, hence is 
often used with the effect of a verb, especially in com- 
mand or entreaty, like away. 
Early to-morrow will we rise, and hence. 
Shak., J. C., iv. 3. 
I know you not : what are ye? hence, ye base besognios ! 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Cure, ii. 1.] 
2. From this time; in the future. 
He who can reason well to-day about one sort of mat- 
ters cannot at all reason to-day about others, though per- 
haps a year hence he may. Locke. 
Their names shall give fresh offence many ages hence. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 92. 
3. For this cause or reason ; as a consequence 
of, or an inference or a deduction from, some- 
thing just stated. 
Spight and favour determin'd all : hence faction, thence 
treachery, both at home and in the field. 
Mi/i,,n. Hist. Eng., iii. 
On different senses different objects strike ; 
Hence different passions more or less inflame, 
As strong or weak, the organs of the frame ; 
And hence one master-passion in the breast, 
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. 
Pope, Essay on Man, ii. 129. 
Wnen the upper portion of the plane is revolved until 
P coincides with f, D being fixed, PD coincides with FD, 
and consequently the angle PDC with the angle PDC. 
Hence the angles PDC and FDC are equal. 
Chauvenet, Geometry, L 5. 
4. From this source or original. 
Atergate and Derceto, that notorious Syrian Goddesse, 
happily borrowed the name hence. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 44. 
All other faces borrowed hence 
Their light and grace. Suckling. 
Hence, like thence and whence, though containing in itself 
the notion ' from, ' is often pleonastically preceded by from. 
From hence we might descerne the mayne land and very 
high mountaines. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, 1. 110. 
hencet (hens), v. [< hence, adv.] I. trans. To 
send away ; despatch. 
Go, bawling eur, thy hungry maw go fill 
On yon foul flock, belonging not to me. 
With that his dog he henc'd, his flock he curs'd. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, L 
II. in tram. To go hence; go away; depart. 
Herewith the Angell henc't, and bent his flight 
Towards our sad Citie. Sylvester, Panaretus, L 1281. 
henceforth(hens'forth'), adr. [< ME. hensforth, 
hennes fnrth, earlier heonne forth, < AS. heonan 
forth, also forth heonan : see 7ie 2 , hence, and 
forth 1 .] From this time forth ; from now on : 
often with a pleonastic from. 
Thanne scythe the Emperour, Now undirstondethe wel, 
that my woord/rom hensforthe is scharp and bytynge as 
a Swerd. Mandeville, Travels, p. 254. 
Hitherto he [Clive] had been merely a soldier carrying 
into effect . . . the plans of others. Henceforth he is to 
be chiefly regarded as a statesman. Macaulay, Lord Clive. 
henceforward, henceforwards (hens ' for '- 
ward, -wardz), adr. [< hence + forward 1 , for- 
wards.] From this time forward ; henceforth. 
