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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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HEMP, n. [L. cannabis.]
A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the
fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage.
The name is also applied to various other plants yielding
fiber.
The fiber of the skin or rind of the
plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to
various fibers resembling the true hemp.
African hemp, Bowstring hemp.
See under African, and Bowstring. --
Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca
cannabina. -- Canada hemp, a species
of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), the fiber of which was used
by the Indians. -- Hemp agrimony, a
coarse, composite herb of Europe (Eupatorium cannabinum), much
like the American boneset. -- Hemp nettle,
a plant of the genus Galeopsis (G. Tetrahit),
belonging to the Mint family. -- Indian hemp.
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