hempseed
(ˈhɛmpsiːd)
The seed of hemp.
a caudle of hempseed = ‘hempen caudle’ (hempen 1 b).
| c 1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 156 Canoys, hempseed. c 1532 G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 915 Hempe sede, canebuise. 1588 Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 17 He hath prooued you to haue deserued a cawdell of Hempseed. 1694 Phil. Trans. XVIII. 36 Of a grey colour, and a convex figure, like the half of an Hempseed. 1714 Gay Sheph. Week Thursday 31 This hempseed with my virgin hand I sow, Who shall my true-love be, the crop shall mow. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 429 Oil of Hempseed is obtained by expression from the seeds of..hemp. |
b. A gallows-bird.
| 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. i. 64 Do, do thou Rogue: Do thou Hempseed. |
c. attrib., as hempseed bird, a bird fed on hempseed; hempseed calculus (Path.), name given by Wollaston to some varieties of the mulberry-calculus.
| 1611 Coryat Crudities 15 Many gold Finches, with other birds which are such as our hempseede birds in England. 1864–70 T. Holmes & Hulke Syst. Surg. (1883) III. 237 The dumb-bell crystals often unite into a mass and form the nucleus of a concretion called the hemp-seed calculus. Ibid. 246 The small, smooth, globular ‘hemp-seed calculus’. |