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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hemlock \Hem"lock\, n. [OE. hemeluc humloc AS hemlic,
hymlic.]
1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs
having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the
{Cicuta maculata}, {bulbifera}, and {virosa}, and the
{Conium maculatum}. See {Conium}.
Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by
some thought to have been a decoction of {Cicuta
virosa}, or water hemlock, by others of {Conium
maculatum}.
2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America ({Abies,
or Tsuga, Canadensis}); hemlock spruce.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. --Longfellow.
3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
{Ground hemlock}, or {Dwarf hemlock}. See under {Ground}.
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