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cannabis

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Searchable Lemmata: cannabis (L).
Alternate Forms: cannabus, cannabum.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Raw Material; hemp; strong fibre from the cannabis plant. Also, hemp as tow for rope or cord.(ante 700 - ante 1500)
1. Tomentum appellatum quod aut in filo aut in tela tumeat, nec subtilitatem habeat. Cannabum a similitudine cannae vocatum, sive a Graeca etymologia; nam illi cannabum KANNABIN vocant. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,27,3)]
2. in portagio ... j bard' can[abi] Accounts. [DMLBS KR (Ac 368/30 m. 6) 1307]
c.f.: chanvre
L, OE.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Textile; canvas; a piece of canvas; a piece of material (canvas) used for measuring cloth?: a 'toil' or hunting-net. In her study of silken textiles in the Royal Wardrobe accounts, Lisa Monnas points out that 'The pann' adaur' in canab' (cloths of "canvas" woven with gold) seem likely to have been cloths made from hemp and gold thread ... [and] were consistently included among the silk materials' [Monnas, L. (1989), 286-7)].(ante 1215 - ante 1500 ?)
1. in xxxiiij ulnis de kanebo ad vela molendini Accounts. [DMLBS Pipe Wint. (131) 1211]
2. in xxvj ulnis canabi ad lanam ... ; in eadem saccanda Accounts. [DMLBS Crawley (203) 1232]
3. remanent ... xx ulne canab' in manutergiis et ix ulne in j canab' pro pannis mensurandis Accounts. (used for measuring cloth?) [DMLBS Ac. Durh. (171 b) 1343]
4. a canvas, canabus, carentivillum Gloss. [DMLBS CathA (canabus, carentivillum) circa 1483]
c.f.: canvas
L.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, From Classical Latin.
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