hemlock
hem lok
- n poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium
Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock - n large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
- n soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
- n an evergreen tree
- It proved unsuccessful; he was convicted by his peers, and subsequently killed himself by swallowing hemlock.
- Said Zellerbach: "Three decades ago, the western hemlock was considered little more than a forest weed.
- Suddenly the fir, cedar and hemlock trees they knew so well disappeared.